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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming (www.darrenhorrocks.co.uk)

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Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While these tools have obvious benefits in terms of productivity, there’s a growing concern that they may also have unintended consequences on the quality and skillset of programmers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And many programmers write some pretty stupid and horrible descriptions. LLMs don’t solve this, they just allow lazy programmers to be even lazier.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anybody that doesn't write binary is lazy, said the compiler.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't even know how to respond to this. It makes no sense at all and doesn't really relate to or respond to my comment except it happens to use the word "lazy", I'm guessing in reference to my comment. Good luck trying to push LLMs, not sure what your agenda really is, other than to be argumentative here. Peace.