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imnos t1_iy0wz76 wrote

Reply to comment by Polend2030 in Google Has a Secret Project That Is Using AI to Write and Fix Code by nick7566

I've been coding for 5+ years professionally so I mostly use it to save the effort of typing.

You need to be able to look at what Copilot spits out and understand if it's correct or not, so I'd say it wouldn't be much use for a newbie. You have to know how to structure your code and then let Copilot fill things out whilst keeping an eye on what it's doing.

Sometimes it saves me Googling something I don't know how to do if I can instruct it correctly - and then I just test that what it wrote works, so you may be able to learn some things from it but you'll be able to use it to it's full potential once you have some knowledge/experience under your belt.

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Frumpagumpus t1_iy4hspr wrote

i think it would still be useful for a newbie (maybe even more useful than for someone experienced). it could function as a somewhat unreliable mentor lol. or a learning buddy i guess.

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dasnihil t1_iycrluq wrote

for someone who actually wants to learn coding, it'd be more than a mentor. gpt-3 can explain problems with a code, or explain the logic behind writing the codes too, not just a tool that gives you codes. it's a tool with plethora of knowledge and capable of coherent conversations with it's students :)

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