john_g

I found GitHub copilot an interesting heuristic on how expressive the programming language / framework you are using is.

It is very useful for things that I would call boilerplate, e.g. you have almost duplicated code (say in a view and a controller) and need to copy from one to the other.

It is annoyingly bad for autocompleting an api as it tends to be slightly (and plausibly) wrong.

I haven't found it very useful for anything else.

Working on a project where I have to do lots of the first makes me sad, so I tend to try to avoid those projects - but if I was forced to for some reason it would be worth $10 a month. However, if enough of the programming I did could be helped by github copilot for it to be worth that much I would start to get worried I was working on the wrong sort of problems and try to move into something different.

Why isn't in the case that if something is clearly being used for illegal purposes the police can't probe it to find out who owns it.

looks so much fun guys.