vladiliescu

Well it's obvious, Dream got captured again by some wizard.

Really, they use Vercel AI SDK?

Open source is not a cure-all you know. I prefer to pay for quality software than spend countless hours trying to compile a thing someone abandoned years ago.

I'd say using a better language is an easy decision to make when you're in a team of one and not depending on any framework-specific features and somewhat harder when you're in a team of more, depending on some framework-specific features, or both.

Thumbs up, I totally missed this. Didn’t encounter this approach in the suggestions either.

That’s actually one reason why I don’t think it’s current incarnation is a good fit for learning new apis, it’s been trained on a lot of code, not all of it good.

Seems like something a future version might be able to fix, perhaps by training a new layer using just demonstrably ‘good’ code?

Ouch, thanks for pointing this out, my German has a long way to go.

Thank you :)

That makes two of us, I don't have a lot of faith in my code either.

You know that gif where Gary Oldman yells 'EVERYONE'? :P

I've got a sneaking suspicion that this is what we'll be doing in the future, I see Copilot as a taste of what future compilers will be like.

In a few years I expect to have most of an application built by an AI, with me developing the business/core logic by hand.

I think we'll have smarter AI shifting through those legacy codebases of the future, not sure if that'll be a big problem.

The way I see this, GitHub Copilot and the like are true next-gen compilers, translating English into code. They'll only get better with time.

They mention this risk in the Codex paper, too

> One challenge researchers should consider is that as capabilities improve, it may become increasingly difficult to guard against “automation bias.”

Not necessarily horrible but still, a bit frightening :).

I fear hordes of inexperienced developers, mindlessly clicking accept on the first suggestion, and then on the second, third, and so on, until one seems to work. And the more advanced tools like this get, the harder it'll be to review the code and make sure nothing's messed up.

I guess we'll have to think long and hard about what safeguards to build against these risks.

Yes, I think so too. Only not in the near future, as we don't really have enough computing power to make that feasible. I've written a few thoughts about this here https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/#po...

Agreed, but the tracking cookies will be worthless. It seems like a good trade-off to me.

You could open the slideshare links in Private/Incognito mode.

I'm also getting those errors - probably because I block third party cookies. A workaround would be to open the slideshare links and view the presentations from their site. In Incognito, so their cookies won't matter :)

"Making the entire robot dissolve in water is a bit trickier, but the researchers seem confident that it’ll be possible in the near future."

imo, it invalidates the following:

2 - the platform is not stagnant, be it Windows or .NET - new things are coming out;

3 - there is a proper direction, less towards Windows/Office as desktop apps and more towards services;

5 - the updates do happen more often, and at least for .NET they're done in a transparent way (being open source and all)

Really? With all the new things coming out of Redmond and with them open sourcing the full server side .NET stack[1], the description above still sounds like MS to you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905

But if everybody else had a small copter too, wouldn't the air traffic be just as bad?

imo it's a valid observation - a cursory search revealed this really really old and spot-on HN comment[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011426

Facebook is trying to buy its perceived competition, i.e. the "next" Facebook before it can actually become The "next" Facebook.

Same thing as with Instagram.

The fact that they can spend so much money on this (and that their investors allow it) shows just how much they want to remain on top.

I think this belongs on imgur.

Just wanted to add that TypeScript is backwards compatible with JS, so having a large vanilla JS code base doesn't really matter - it's already valid TypeScript code, so you can go and start adding type annotations and whatnot.

Well, it looks like I was wrong - you can disable the shortcuts from the Extras menu (not from the Settings one).

It is pretty great, however it cannot be changed to another key combination and if you happen to use that particular shortcut in some other apps (cough OneNote cough) you're pretty much screwed.