For me as a software developer the accuracy is more in the 95%+ range.
On one hand the built in copilot chat widget in Intellij basically replaces a lot my google queries.
On the other hand it is rather fucking good at executing some rewrites that is a fucking chore to do manually, but can easily be done by copilot.
Imagine you have a script that initializes your DB with some test data. You have an Insert into statement with lots of columns and rows so
Inser into (column1,…,column n)
Values row1,
Row 2
Row n
Addig a new column with test data for each row is a PITA, but copilot handles it without issue.
Similarly when writing unit tests you do a lot of edge case testing which is a bunch of almost same looking tests with maybe one variable changing, at most you write one of those tests, then copilot will auto generate the rest after you name the next unit test, pretty good at guessing what you want to do in that test, at least with my naming scheme.
So yeah, it’s way overrated for many-many things, but for programming it’s a pretty awesome productivity tool.
Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.
One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.
For me as a software developer the accuracy is more in the 95%+ range.
On one hand the built in copilot chat widget in Intellij basically replaces a lot my google queries.
On the other hand it is rather fucking good at executing some rewrites that is a fucking chore to do manually, but can easily be done by copilot.
Imagine you have a script that initializes your DB with some test data. You have an Insert into statement with lots of columns and rows so
Inser into (column1,…,column n) Values row1, Row 2 Row n
Addig a new column with test data for each row is a PITA, but copilot handles it without issue.
Similarly when writing unit tests you do a lot of edge case testing which is a bunch of almost same looking tests with maybe one variable changing, at most you write one of those tests, then copilot will auto generate the rest after you name the next unit test, pretty good at guessing what you want to do in that test, at least with my naming scheme.
So yeah, it’s way overrated for many-many things, but for programming it’s a pretty awesome productivity tool.
Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.
One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.