Re: copilot

>=20
> Interesting reading.
>=20
> "a year after the tool's general release -- found that programmers
> accepted on average around 30% of its suggestions,"
>=20

I probably accept a higher proportion than that of IntelliJ's suggested =
improvements to my Java code. It's very good at mechanical tasks like =
detecting near-duplicate code and generating a reusable method from it, =
an it's scarily good at guessing that if I want to initialise a variable =
called languageVersion then I probably want to get the value from =
getStaticContext().getPackage().getHostLanguage().getVersion(). It =
illustrates just how repetitive a lot of our coding is.

And of course, it's just like self-driving cars. When it gets it right =
99% of the time, we'll start getting lazy and not notice when it's =
getting it wrong, with fatal consequences.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


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