> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:16:55 +0000 > > > Sorry, I don't understand what you have in mind. Can you show an > > example of useful code that could be copied verbatim into a program > > without at least some renaming, without breaking the program? > > To take the example from the article I mentioned above > > public static String humanReadableByteCount(long bytes, boolean si) { > int unit = si ? 1000 : 1024; > if (bytes < unit) return bytes + " B"; > int exp = (int) (Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(unit)); > String pre = (si ? "kMGTPE" : "KMGTPE").charAt(exp-1) + (si ? "" : > "i"); > return String.format("%.1f %sB", bytes / Math.pow(unit, exp), pre); > } > > can be copied into a Java program, and assuming that there is no other > method called humanReadableByteCount in the same class, it should > compile and run without renaming or re-typing.
How would one know it's 'long' and not some other data type? > CoPilot might generate this from a comment like, > > // Convert a byte count to a human-readable string > > since it is mentioned over 6000 times on GitHub (and this method even > has a bug, as the article explains -- but that is a totally different > issue). That's not how AI works: it doesn't just count the number of times something is mentioned. That usually leads to unsatisfactory results.
