Skynet

I was asked when I started using github copilot – their “AI” tool for helping write code. Here is the note I remember writing when I first turned it on:

Kurt Feb 21st, 2023 at 8:41 AM
This morning I needed to set the default value of an existing column. Instead of looking it up [on api dock] I wrote a comment and copilot filled in the line. It got it right except <plural variable name> instead of our <singular variable name>.  That’s pretty useful.

For context, that would have taken me 5 minutes to look up and sort out all the options and all that stuff.

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