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NoCopilot · 6 Jun 2023

I'm not convinced it's saving me time yet since I have to correct it/ignore it most of the time

meesles on Hacker News

80% of the time, the suggestions are either too generic

In the thread “Tips for better coding with ChatGPT”, replying to this comment

Helped: Auto-generating functional integration tests with setup and assertions.

Got in the way: Suggestions too generic or missing intent, requiring constant patching.

… Copilot was able to pick up on that and auto-generate a 90% functional test with ~30 lines, including setup and assertions. I'm not convinced it's saving me time yet since I have to correct it/ignore it most of the time. When it works, it's cool. …