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Copilot does a great job of writing little Python, shell and cmd.exe scripts to do little tasks
PaulHoule on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Recommendations for Aspiring Software Engineers Post-ChatGPT O1-Preview”
Helped: Writing small Python/shell scripts and clarifying Postgres/JooQ usage.
Got in the way: Incorrectly stated Java Optional.orElseThrow() does not exist.
… The other day it was telling me that, in Java, there is no artity0 method Optional.orElseThrow() but there is. Copilot does a great job of writing little Python, shell and cmd.exe scripts to do little tasks and it was a big help figuring out how to use PostgresSQL functionality I don't have on my fingertips and then expressing it in JooQ. I wouldn't expect it to succeed at writing anything big that has a complex relationship with its environment though. …