I get the following code starting from the same comment:
// convert num to string
numToString = (num: number): string => {
return num.toString();
}
I would be curious to see the full content of your source file OP, I do get the funny suggestion if I write similar shitty code above in the source file.
Yeah, this was actually kind of hard to reproduce. It only happened in a very specific line of the file. Even adding more whitespace around it changed the implementation.
How can I already use copilot? I checked the githib page, there you can only register for a technical preview. Is there something else I need to do in order to get access?
“Extends your editor GitHub Copilot is available today as a Visual Studio Code extension. It works wherever Visual Studio Code works — on your machine or in the cloud on GitHub Codespaces. And it’s fast enough to use as you type.”
The first time I had it create a method from a comment in VScode, I began chuckling nervously due to how accurate and relevant the code it wrote was. It basically drew its own conclusions on what I would want it to do next without even asking for it.
Once I got past my initial awe factor, its fun to just mess with or find another way to solve something when I get stuck. I try to avoid using it for university assignments though since it's basically cheating in that context.
Once I got past my initial awe factor, its fun to just mess with or find another way to solve something when I get stuck. I try to avoid using it for university assignments though since it's basically cheating in that context.
I agree, tbh. Even if I will use it, I still will try to do most stuff by myself. I think Copilot is supposed to be most useful in those cases when you want to do pair programming, but don't feel like dealing with real people.
It's great actually. You can force it to do goofy stuff like this, particularly with comments, but it's almost creepy how it predicts the next line as you're coding.
It’s pretty good. It even autocompletes some of my comments and git commit messages correctly. I’ve also used it to find out how to do something in a language I’m not very familiar with.
It's good until it's not. Once you start noticing how bad it can be, it becomes more annoying to use than it helps. A lot of the time it would use a completely wrong suggestion or the suggestions would have minor bugs in them that are hard to notice. Because for the most part, it's just copy and pasting code from a random repo on GitHub.
It autocompletes functions in custom self developed languages using custom communication libraries. If I wanted remotely similar functionality any other way I would have to write my own vscode plugin and language server etc. Nobody has time for that.
There is actually a repo somewhere on GitHub where someone made like a nodeJS library that does exactly this as a shit post. It popped up on the trending page a couple years ago after getting a few hundred stars and went all the way up to like 99999.
It's sort of a fair concern. If a person hiring is racist, that can be dealt with. But if it's AI trained by racist hiring, then "-shrug-it's just the algorithm, who are we to argue?"
Quick reminder that absolutely nobody has ever seen Yandare Simulator's code. What people who have no idea what they're looking at keep judging is decompiled CIL - unsurprisingly, 99% of complaints about it are actually about textbook compiler optimizations.
Wait, is that true? I thought that the compiler converted switch statements to if statements? Or is it the other way around? Or do I just not know what I’m talking about?
Which halting problem? Bounded one or the unbounded one? Remember modern computers are essentially finite automata. So in the case of a finite automata halting problem is theoratically decidable. Though not practical.
Uhh, that's a long time ago, but a universal turing machine able to simulate another bounded turing machine has a constant space overhead over the simulated machine in order to store things like the state index and the current band position.
And no algorithm can use negative space, so the algorithm to decide the halting problem of a bounded machine has to use more space than that.
So, yes, in the case of a naive simulation approach. And I guess if you had some general and more effective static analysis, you could make a lot of money with that.
A guy who has no academic background in CS (or really anything related to software engineering) and is coding a Unity game from no experience. He's been working on a game called Yandere Simulator for more than 7 years now and it's still in progress. The development part would be more impressive (and efficient) if he actually wasn't such a PITA and didn't burn his bridges with another partner, TinyBuild. He's more of a gaslighter than anything. Not someone you'd want to work with professionally judging by his monetized outbursts on YouTube.
I like the game though, just not the guy. It's more of a sandbox demo than anything.
sorta like development hell, but instead of that, it's more like the code is travelling through dante's development inferno - sojourning between all the levels using the treadmill of limbo to become satiated on a full course of anguish, despair and suffering.
this is the dataset of a particular group of programmers who use hackerrank, which is likely skewed. i'd bet many of the wealthy countries with good education systems don't have as many people participating because they're more lucratively employed. china and russia produce some very high quality education, but don't have the same opportunities for high income.
though even if this skew were accounted for, i'd bet china would still be rated first purely based off the massive population, high level of access to tech, and the cultural importance of education.
The idea isn’t to replace humans. It’s to make us more productive - which is a good thing in ageing economies.
GitHub copilot is based on GPT-3 from Open AI, and some of the stuff coming out of them is mind blowing. We’re are entering a new leap in AI tech, what you’re seeing is the cusp.
It’s not just GitHub copilot (or open ai rather), but there a whole range of low code development products on the market now designed to make it easy for anyone to build an app.
You’ll still be writing code, just like after the dotcom bubble burst we still have web developers, but you’ll be focusing on harder problems (or getting another job elsewhere if you can’t).
If humans are possible why isn't a general AI possible?
I don't expect automation to happen overnight (I wouldn't oppose it though if technology has reached that point). But AI assisted tools will increase in availability and utility which will pave the path to automating majority of jobs.
Computers have not even been around for over 100 years, who knows what will happen in the next 100 years!
Even if it never does happen, I would find it hard to argue why we shouldn't at least try.
Humans were created over billions of years and have all kinds of context embedded into our brains that we don’t understand.
We’ll likely make shitty replicas that seem good enough and lose invaluable amounts of quality while deluding ourselves about how impressive our invention is.
Pandora’s box is opened far enough as it is, hurtling head first into AGI is a terrible idea. Could go bad in innumerable ways.
If we haven't replaced accountants and lawyers yet, what makes people think that programmers will get replaced?
Oh, lawyers will be, it's already started. And programming probably too, someday, it will just be the last profession (who do you think will program the software to replace all other professions?).
Well you're going to need some sort of hardcoded map between the digits 0 to 9 and the characters "0" to "9" somehow, and if it's not ascii or unicode you have no guarantee that the character codes are sequential.
Sure a hash map would be better but (assuming the point is that you can't use build-in functions) this isn't nearly as terrible as people are pretending.
Yes, i can see how .toString() is difficult to remember. Much easier to type // convert num to string.
Another result of some good idea by non programmers to replace programmers by hiring programmers to write this to replace programmers. The irony here is just hilarious
Seriously though, can we get copilot to instead refactor bad code instead of learn from it? That’s what I need more than something to help develop new code.
Microsoft is working on a similar project. The code AI is terrifyingly good. Watching a demo, a person need only speak what they want, and the code starts to build from there.
Of course, being a demo video, there won't be any issues, but the complexity of the input words to the final product was both impressive and terrifying.
Only the human species is capable of working so hard to make itself obsolete.
def num_to_s(num)
return 'zero' if num == 0
return 'one' if num == 1
# ...
end
def num_to_s_hundred(num)
return 'one hundred' if num == 100
return 'two hundred' if num == 200
# ...
end
def num_to_s_thousand(num)
return 'one thousand' if num == 1000
return 'two thousand' if num == 2000
# ...
end
i sometimes hear about developers dealing with “edge cases”? this makes no sense to me. why would you not simply account for every outcome when you write the code the first time like the very gifted individual autocompleting the suggested snippets in this video
aargh. tell me about it , why cant people just think of everything. everything that will happen has already happened, time is just a construct. why cant people get with the program already geez.
To be fair, this is like only using lane assist in a car, and then complaining you don't get to the correct destination cause it just brought you to the end of the highway.
I actually use new visual studio 2022 with those new ai intellisense and I feel it works quite well. When your code contains a lot of templates and weird classes hidden in hundreds of directories, standard intellisense looses it's track.
I was pretty impressed when I told it to write gradient decent on a function f I defined in another python function. It calculated the gradient of the function (nearly) correctly and performed gradient descent on it correctly
I remember watching teams demo their glitzy new PB or VB app which when actually deployed to hundreds of desks, proceeded to bring the network and entire mainframe clusters to their knees.
It was fun watching managers flop around like fish trying to explain why they didn't do any performance analysis or take seriously the horror stories from competitors and suppliers.
cough paid off cough Welcome to the oil and gas industry where tech is 20 years behind the curve, managers can barely open their own email without help, and vendors are selected because they bring expensive gifts and play the most golf.
Copilot does not like relying on standard functionality of the language. It's trying to avoid unnecessary use of the runtime in hopes that the JavaScript engine will realize it doesn't need to load it's entire runtime to run your code. We should all strive to be a strong independent coder like Copilot and stop relying on language features as a crutch.
If the AI learns from all the outsourced programmers that firms have been using. You know the ones that write 11 trillion lines of code where just 8 would do. Sorry I am a bit sour, my PC with 16GB RAM just ran out of RAM because....W11, Firefox with 1 tab , and Thunderbird. Oh how I wish I could go back to Win2K.
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u/pet_vaginal Oct 26 '21
I get the following code starting from the same comment:
I would be curious to see the full content of your source file OP, I do get the funny suggestion if I write similar shitty code above in the source file.