We keep getting assaulted by co-pilot, which sucks in the first place, but also doesn't really work correctly given our non-standard Microsoft environment. One of my analysts tries to use GPT to solve problems, but he doesn't understand the problems he's solving, so he can't properly evaluate the solutions GPT is spitting out. Honestly, I hate AI so much, I hate the hype, I hate how companies are pushing it. For most cases it's an enormous waste of energy, and companies are much more afraid of missing out on revenue than they are of wasting or misusing technology.
It's useful if you can't be arsed to type trivial stuff in, but you have to know how to do the trivial stuff in the first place because you have to be ready to correct it.
So it wouldn't help a beginner to learn. Kinda like modern StackOverflow.
Mind, I've only used the public LLMs, not copilot's code completion. That one I've only tried once and it has the potential to be extremely annoying.
> It's useful if you can't be arsed to type trivial stuff in, but you have to know how to do the trivial stuff in the first place because you have to be ready to correct it.
This. The only exception I’ve found to this rule is shell one-liners. I’m not sure why they’re so good at them; maybe the terse nature helps? However, I’ve also never had it do anything that I couldn’t figure out in awk on my own.
