GitHub Copilot is starting to produce D code that can almost pass code review

[Abdulhaq]

On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 at 12:46:17 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 at 07:23:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Thank you for your extensive and thorough reply.
>>
>> You're right, I was thinking of integrating it with 
>> MicroEmacs. I'd like it to be as simple as:
>>
>>     hinttext = copilot(sourcetext);
>>
>> which would make it great fun to play around with. Alas, I 
>> have little hope it would be that simple :-) since most 
>> programmers can't bear to make things simple.
>
> It works the other way, too. Many engineers are obsessed with 
> simplicity. They go to great lengths to come up with the 
> simplest solution where a complex one would suffice.))

Making things simple is the hard part.