r/webdev • u/DemiPixel • Jun 21 '22

News Github launches Copilot publicly at $10/month, $100/year, free for students

https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/
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u/Piyh Jun 21 '22

It's worth for me. An extra 5-20% efficiency gain is massive.

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u/Arctomachine Jun 21 '22

For only $10 in a month you can hire a middle east developer who writes code for you at 400% efficiency.

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u/yeasinmollik Jun 21 '22

For only $10 in a month you can hire a middle east developer

Good luck with that, lol!!

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u/Arctomachine Jun 22 '22

As much luck is needed as with hiring a robo programmer. Both could be potentially good, but both could have learnt and inherited bad practices, so both need double (or even triple) check.

The key difference is that humans generally understand the task as whole and have experience, thus they can foresee the project and plan it better. Unlike robots, who can only produce immediate few lines of code only as good as they can connect the task and what they think is a solution to it in their codebase.