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Re: Does an AI assistant help with learning/using TDD?

 

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 8:21?AM Matteo Vaccari <matteo.vaccari@...> wrote:
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I have used GitHub Copilot in my hobby project¡ª it¡¯s javascript and I don¡¯t know the language well, so it often suggests code that¡¯s better than what I would write. It does work with TDD, sort of.

?The main issue is that it will suggest production code that does more than strictly needed for the current test; often guessing the complete function on a single shot.?
Then I have the choice to delete it and write the bare minimum, or to keep it and ask Copilot to write the missing tests.

I can imagine using ChatGPT in the same way that I have in the past used CodeWars: to read small bits of other people's code as a mechanism to help me learn a language incrementally, especially its idioms.

I have not yet tried it with any serious effort at building something I care about keeping.
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