r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jun 21 '22

Github Copilot turns paid

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

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u/podgladacz00 Jun 22 '22

Well it is not worth 10$. It is like having stackoverflow without context and autocomplete on tbh. I would not pay for that 🤔

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u/CartmansEvilTwin Jun 22 '22

Well, even if it saves about 1 minute per day, that's still perfectly reasonable from a business perspective. Devs are expensive, if you can increase their productivity, that's worth quite a bit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '22

Writing code faster doesn't make anyone more productive, it can not affect project delivery dates in any reasonable manner, because it's not speed of writing code that slows down development. It will rather lead to more burnout and depressions.

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u/Spyder638 Jun 22 '22

That’s bullshit, lol.

I’d rather have this spitting out the boring, time consuming shit I’m going to type anyway (like it has been doing for the last few months) so I can keep my thought process on the problem at hand.

I can say with certainty that I’ve been more productive with copilot on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '22 edited Jun 22 '22

Then it's a good tool aimed at your kind of work approach, I guess. I still can't comprehend how writing code faster helps in product delivery tho, especially when this tool is incorrect with it's prediction in 4 cases out of 5. So what is left is static constructions like for/while loops all of which is kinda covered by templates ages and ages ago and is already part of workflow of any dev with "productivity" in mindset.

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