Programming

17358 readers

254 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (11 children)

You write machine code?

No, you only describe what you want the compiler to write in machine code.

With copilot it's still a description.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If the compiler produces a program that doesn't match your description, you can debug the compiler. Can you debug an LLM?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why wouldn't a compiled program match your description (code)? The compiler is broken?? Compiled programs alwsys match their description(code).

So more likely your translation from idea to function is wrong.

Re-read your description, step through it slowly, what did you assume, that was wrong, or where did you add a mistake or typo? Sounds like I can do this in natural language or in Rust.

You can say that llms are not deterministic of what they produce, but that's got nothing to do with making a programmer worse at their job.

If you can't translate your idea into function and test its output to be what you want, then you are a bad programmer.

load more comments (8 replies)