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New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'
(visualstudiomagazine.com)
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Makes sense, even if it’s not good practice.
It is really useful for hobby projects! I needed a recursive function to find a path between two nodes in a graph and it wrote me something that worked with my data in a few seconds, saved a bit of time
For now.
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Best practices exist to save you time and nerves in debugging.
Meh, I knew that my graph would never have loops and would only ever have one path from A to B, so it did it well enough. Pretty easy to test!
Good practices don’t matter much for small hobby projects.
Training bad habits... vs. fun, i get it.
I find that code way too fun to write to let someone or something else do it for me 😂
Actual time spent micromanaging the AI until it produces the perfect code may or may not exceed writing the code yourself.
That’s fair, and if I were getting paid for it I’d do the same! But it’s for a project that’s essentially a pomodoro timer 😆 so it’s harder to justify the time