Python Bytes

Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. Brian #1: Can Amazon’s CodeWhisperer write better Python than you? Brian Tarbox “Despite the clickbait-y title, whether CW’s code is better or worse than mine is at the margins and not really important. What is significant is that it has the potential to save me a ton of time and mental space to focus on improving, refactoring and testing. It’s making me a better programmer by taking on some of the undifferentiated heavy lifting.” Some decent code generation, starting with Amazon API examples. The generated dataclass method was neat, but really, the comment “prompt” probably took as much time to write as the code would have. The generated test case is workable, but I would not consider that a good test. Perhaps don’t lump together construction, attribute access, and tests for all methods in one test function. That said, I’ve seen way worse test methods in my career. So, decent starting point. Rel