After waiting some time, today I was invited to try out Github copilots' visual studio code extension.
After using it some time, I personally feel that it is a next step in the coding .
Simple commands are suggested right away
There are some very practical suggestions as well (they are trivial , but I google them all the time still)
Sometimes it suggests ridiculous solutions
But by clicking control+enter
we can check several other possible solutions and choose most efficient one
It can actually generate function body from comments (usually it was other way around)
One other thing I noticed is that, sometimes, when it comes to libraries, it suggests code from old versions.
For example, in the image bellow it tries to draw scatterplot using d3 v3 (v4 was released in Jun 2016 ) and latest version is d3 v7
Aside from the issues mentioned above, I personally think that this is a next step in the AI assisted programming and can't wait to see how it will progress.
If you are eager to try it out, but you are still in waitlist , just comment your uncompleted code piece bellow and I will try respond with copilot suggested snippets.
Thanks for reading :)
Top comments (11)
Well, AI is the future and I see GitHub copilot being an assistant for every developer in the future (as the name suggests) but I feel like they shouldn't really take away jobs of developers though tools like these have a long way to go before it reaches that level
It won't...you still need to understand how to build software...
Could you please check what happens here in a .js file?
It returned magical function
🤦
// builds the next github
Maybe the comment is too vague
Not sure if it is correct though
// Async fetch multiple URLs, read results into an array of objects.
Good luck?