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Discussion on: All the things you need to know about the GitHub Copilot !

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Jon Randy ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ

Looks very similar to TabNine which I've been using for ages - although Copilot seems to be totally OTT in comparison. TabNine's suggestions are fairly conservative, but incredibly helpful - it really does feel like it's reading your mind sometimes.

This level of completion though - especially the very large ones, is an absolute disaster for the levels of competency in the industry, and very bad for people who are learning. It's almost an automated StackOverflow copy-pasta machine.

Possibly useful in the right hands, but - as they say - with great power, comes great responsibility

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Mayank Kumar

yeah exactly, tabnine is a very nice extension to add in you IDE's it helps alot !! ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿค—

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Tabnine

Happy to help ๐Ÿ’™

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lepinekong

for javascript at least it slowed me down, I deactivated so Copilot must be better or I'll do the same ;)

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Tabnine

Hey Jon, we are very happy to hear that you're enjoying Tabnine in your IDE โ™ฅ๏ธ