This has been the biggest productivity improvement to my workflow in years
No it doesn't "understand what I'm doing" or "get everything right" but that's hardly the point
It's often reducing the amount of labor I'm doing by hitting the keyboard by guessing 90% correctly what I was going to type
It also often saves me from having to google how to do something, it's effectively serving me a search result right along my code
I'm lucky to be getting it for free but would have immediately paid $10. It needs to only save you minutes a month for that to be worth it
Also the comments about it being "unfair their monetizing other people's work" are missing the point.
Github has created a product that many people use and through that effort created a large repository of code.
They are now releasing a product that is going to create a large amount of of value in time saved and are maybe capturing 2% of that. This is a great outcome for everyone
Agreed, copilot has been especially useful for boilerplate code or somewhat repetitive code like chess move enumeration, where the code for different pieces is similar but not the same.
It also saves a ton of time having to look up small pieces of syntax, I've taken to writing a lot of quick one-off scripts because copilot does a fairly decent job of generating code for the relatively simple individual steps.
A wrongthink reply has been deleted. I though HN had a policy of allowing criticism of Ycombinator (and hopefully ex-Ycombinator led) companies.
The OpenAI threads are the exact opposite: The do not seem organic at all. Of course users probably do all the flagging, but it still gives a bad impression.
It's true that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is the topic, but (a) Github isn't one, and (b) we can't do any sort of moderation (less or more) on posts we don't see. I didn't see yours until now.
Re OpenAI threads - I'm not aware of anything non-organic going on there. As far as I can tell, HN users are just really interested in AI related stuff. Same for Deepmind threads, etc.
(Btw, although it's common for commenters who break the site guidelines to confer honorifics like "wrongthink" on their own posts, you don't need to resort to that to understand why users flagged your comment.)
No it doesn't "understand what I'm doing" or "get everything right" but that's hardly the point
It's often reducing the amount of labor I'm doing by hitting the keyboard by guessing 90% correctly what I was going to type
It also often saves me from having to google how to do something, it's effectively serving me a search result right along my code
I'm lucky to be getting it for free but would have immediately paid $10. It needs to only save you minutes a month for that to be worth it
Also the comments about it being "unfair their monetizing other people's work" are missing the point.
Github has created a product that many people use and through that effort created a large repository of code.
They are now releasing a product that is going to create a large amount of of value in time saved and are maybe capturing 2% of that. This is a great outcome for everyone