Readit NewsWhat’s the use case?
(I tried some things, and it blew up. Thus far my experience w agents in general)
I found the tool to be extremely valuable when working in unfamiliar languages, or when doing rote tasks (where it was easy for me to identify if the generated code was up to snuff or not).
Where I think it falters for me is when I have a very clear idea of what I want to do, and its _similar_ to a bog standard implementation, but I’m doing something a bit more novel. This tends to happen in “reduce”s or other more nebulous procedures.
As I’m a platform engineer though, I’m in a lot of different spaces: Bash, Python, browser, vanilla JS, TS, Node, GitHub actions, Jenkins Java workflows, Docker, and probably a few more. It gives my brain a break while I’m context switching and lets me warm up a bit when I move from area to area.
I think you have nailed it with this comment. I find copilot very useful for boilerplate - stuff that I can quickly validate.
For stuff that is even slightly complicated, like simple if-then-else, I have wasted hours tracking down a subtle bug introduced by copilot (and me not checking it properly)
For hard stuff it is faster and more reliable for me to write the code than to validate copilots code.
You also need to sign a contract that you won't make the PDF, or anything you derive from it, publicly accessible. (At least, that was the case the ladt time I did).
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"the only reason that an object appears to change over time is because it is entangled with a clock ... anyone observing the universe externally would see it as completely ... unchanging"
How is a clock unchanging? Perhaps it's needs winding, maybe somebody pulled the plug, who knows, but that's the only kind of clock I know that doesn't change.
The shop sells a SpaceX sticker pack, and one of the stickers looks like a bunch of cats in a satellite dish.
I'm not a SpaceX follower, so can someone who is explain what it means: https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/produc...
Once writing/printing became commonplace these practices were abandoned.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fYhVkbzr60E
Edit: add YouTube link.