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0 pointsnmfisher3y ago0 comments

I gave up on ChatGPT for code generation because I ended up spending more time tweaking prompts/fixing outputs than if I had just written it myself in the first place. I think this is probably the future of "coding" but it's not quite there yet.

Is CoPilot any better?

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spacebanana73y ago

The UX of CoPilot is a lot better. It feels like a smarter version of autocomplete.

They're based on the same GPT3 model so the quality of suggested code is similar but the ability to accept/reject suggestions based on tabbing in CoPilot makes it much less hassle to use.

fisf3y ago

Same here. ChatGPT kept coming up with syntactically plausible Java code. However, it kept using library methods that plainly don't exist for specific fields.

danielbln3y ago

I've found it to be significantly better at code mutation and documentation.

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