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		tarasglek on Oct 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin? I use copilot, but not for this. I find raw gpt-3 conversational interface to be much more useful for getting over various small programming puzzles.

Filligree on Oct 23, 2022 [–]

Prompted correctly, I find that Copilot can do pretty much everything GPT-3 can except generating long-form prose.

You're probably right that it's more flexible, but then again I don't want to constantly switch out of IDEA.

tarasglek on Oct 30, 2022 | [–]

I think we need work in conversational interfaces into IDEs. Tab-completion is insufficient

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