The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot
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Gaurav Tewari5y ago
It is just in the beta version for now. One's People install it and start using it, it might improve. But no way it is going to solve a puzzle on its own.
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Hrithwik Bharadwaj5y ago
Was trying to do some leet code and hackerrank problems. Surprisingly it was able to solve them lmao
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Hrithwik Bharadwaj5y ago
but yeah as I have mentioned you are the pilot who decides how to solve the problem and this just helps you
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Gaurav Tewari5y ago
Hrithwik Bharadwaj That was because answers to that problem are already there over the internet. if you would try it on a new problem it would definitely fail.
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Gaurav Tewari5y ago
Hrithwik Bharadwaj Yup you are right
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3.14ThorN5y ago
This was a nice and fun read And I should say I'm also with you on the laziness this is going to provide. Of course seasoned developers may not fall for this because they know computers can be very close to doing human activities like humans but they can never do them exactly as humans.
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Hrithwik Bharadwaj5y ago
Thank you
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Maxi Contieri5y ago
Great article and great video!
regarding:
The code synthesized doesn't always follow the best practices or is not optimized to use it for backend development. Like in Javascript, it generates var and == than const and === which can lead to different bugs and shadowing.
This is because the training data. The problem does not lie on the robot
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Hrithwik Bharadwaj5y ago
Thank you Maxi . Absolutely agree
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When I tried to generate code for converting linkedlist into a tree which is like a famous DS problem, The AI started showing copyright messages in the comments and it was from a person called Stephen.