wheat_beer t1_j14u10v wrote on December 21, 2022 at 5:57 PM

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Which language are you using? I'm been trying to use it with C++ and I've found the suggestions are terrible. It will call functions with the wrong number of arguments, return values of the wrong type, or call functions/methods that don't exist.

As a source code completion aid I also find that it suggests too much code. I just want to auto complete this line but instead it will suggest several lines of code that I'd have to delete if all I want is to complete the current line.

[deleted] t1_j14ywv9 wrote on December 21, 2022 at 6:28 PM

Python, Node.js, React, HTML, vanilla JS.

My job is mainly Python back-end, my personal business is the JS stack.

For my job for example I had to write a program to do an exponential back-off retry for a flaky 3rd party API, and it nailed it instantly with just a description of what I wanted.

I definitely believe that it might be good at some languages and bad at others (e.g. I think C++ is used a lot in coding competitions and lowkey wonder if something about that may have lead to degraded quality of code).

I like the multi-line thing, tbh I wish it did it more.

It's definitely not perfect but intuitively I'd say I'm at ~40% faster (even after correcting for bugs etc.).