Yet another C++ TCP server implementation
- implement a TCP server base class
- implement a sample derived class that echoes incoming data
- one implementation that builds with gcc / make and VS
I used the 30 days trial period to find out how effectively copilot enhances / speeds up development.
Later in the development - just for curiosity - I asked ChatGPT for a solution.
What I found googeling the issue wasn't really convincing.
for instance
- too complicated
- not suitable for both gcc and VS
- modern C++
- python
- github CI
Github copilot made a mixed impression from extremely helpful to completely annoying.
Sometimes it really worked:
- just type a word - comment or code
- copilot proposes just what was intended or even better
- just a TAB and code is written
Sometimes it didn't
- proposals where completely unusable
- the occupation of TAB can confuse
Copilot worked as good with python as with C++.
Since it is AI - it sure will get better by the time.
It took two questions to get a complete implementation for gcc, and a third one to get the VS version. Both versions were not 100 percent perfect but built and ran without modification.
Moreover ChatGPT was extremely helpful with any other how to or other question.
For instance I asked who has to resolve comments in a github peer review.
And what I got was substantial explanation of the process.
Once one gets used to it github copilot enhances the development to a certain degree.
ChatGPT is a boost. It will make google and sites like StackOverflow more or less redundant.
(The price of this is a consumption of electric energy equivalent to a town with 150000 - yes: a hundred and fifty thousand - inhabitants.)
Anyhow: AI has changed the approach to software development
- less work with implementation issues
- more concentration on issues like
- subject
- requirements
- collaboration