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MixedCopilot · 31 Oct 2024

So basically, it's a helpful productivity tool but it's not doing any engineering at all

asdfman123 on Hacker News

In the thread “Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI”

Helped: Completing function names and suggesting arguments and jsdoc comments.

Got in the way: Not performing actual engineering tasks beyond line completion.

… If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment. So basically, it's a helpful productivity tool but it's not doing any engineering at all. It's probably about as good, maybe slightly worse, than Copilot. …