On: GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

[thamer]

For what it's worth, Copilot can do it.

I typed the following prompt:

    def search_wikipedia(lat, lon):
        """
        use "requests" to do a geosearch on Wikipedia and pretty-print the resulting JSON
        """

And it completed it with:

    r = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord={0}|{1}&gslimit=20&format=json'.format(lat, lon))
    pprint.pprint(r.json())

[esjeon → thamer]

It's like a junior dev who doesn't quit unnecessary code golfing. Somehow the AI is more comfortable with string-based URL manipulation, which is a straight anti-pattern.

[disgruntledphd2 → esjeon]

Presumably because that's what it's seen in the training data. Remember, it doesn't care about what the code does, it's just doing a search for similar looking code.

[_clhx → thamer]

That doesn't exactly do what the guy above you was talking about, though.

[grenoire → thamer]

That's what the rest of the thread is complaining about, it's still slapping the strings in there with basic formatting. No different than the top level approach.