I also feel I'm spending as much time correcting them as if I studied the topic from scratch
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In the thread “Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming”
Helped: Code completion suggestions align with team code style.
Got in the way: Hallucinations in serious tasks and SQL syntax errors.
… On the job I mostly use GH Copilot for code completion and it's great as it provides suggestions that are in line with the code style of my team. On serious tasks all chat bots allucinate and I also feel I'm spending as much time correcting them as if I studied the topic from scratch, because I (want to?) believe what they say but end up wasting a lot of time fixing their suggestions. I'm also thinking about SQL, today it suggested me an `UPDATE table JOIN another_table SET column` and I was surprised I could use JOINs in update statements, but the bot was so sure it was the right keyword. …