AI and Coding - Is Github Co-Pilot Worth It?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk all about GitHub Co-Pilot and whether it’s ethical, secure, worth it, gonna make you dumb, just going to get in your way, or the greatest thing for programmers to use. Sentry - Sponsor Sentry Dex conference is a free, one-day event to share best practices, epic fails, and seasoned insights on how to improve productivity. From controlling chaotic workflows to maintaining stable code, there’s a lot that can drive a developer mad. We’re hosting DEX, the conference for developers by developers, to give us all a chance to come together and sort through that madness. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry Dex conference is a free, one-day event to share best practices, epic fails, and seasoned insights on how to improve productivity. From controlling chaotic workflows to maintaining stable code, there’s a lot that can drive a developer mad. We’re hosting DEX, the conference for developers by developers, to give us all a chance to come together and sort through that madness. Show Notes GitHub Copilot Code Whisperer 00:29 Welcome 01:12 Sponsor: Sentry 02:06 Sponsor: Sanity 03:07 GitHub Co-Pilot is now paid 05:51 Is it ethical? 08:02 Is it secure? 10:16 Is it going to take our jobs? 13:34 Is it worth it? 16:21 Does it make you dumb? 17:53 Does it get in the way? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS node modules barbecue tips get workflow break dancing soft skills web
0:12.2	development the hastiest the crazy as the tastiest web development treats coming in
0:17.9	hot here is Wes Barakuda boss and Scott El Toro Lugo Tolinsky
0:28.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about
0:33.0	artificial intelligence encoding we're going to be talking about are these tools
0:38.0	are they ethical as it's a cure is it worth the cost
0:42.0	do they make you a bad developer and all sorts of things we're going to be
0:45.0	talking about what the options are for AI coding because it's not just
0:49.0	copilot and we're going to be talking all about what we think about them
0:53.0	my name is Scott Tolinsky I'm a developer from Denver Colorado and with me as
0:57.0	always is Wes boss. Hey everybody excited to talk about AI encoding
1:02.0	yeah I use lots of tools like this and I am a big fan
1:08.0	so I'm also a big fan of both of our sponsors today one of which is
1:12.0	century in the other is sanity now century has a conference
1:17.0	and deploying new code can feel a lot like making a really great sandwich
1:23.0	I think they wrote this far as Wes they wrote this just for us it already talks
1:27.0	about sandwiches taking a bite and having all of the contents fall out exciting
1:31.0	chaotic and manning if you know the feeling then decks by century it might be for
1:36.0	you this is a free conference for developers or you'll get to sort through the
1:41.0	madness and look at the ways to improve workflow productivity joined
1:45.0	century in this event in San Francisco or virtually on September 28th and
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