[–] 11 points 1 year ago*

Call me cynical, but unless something removes these people from power, they'll keep trying until people get tired of hearing about it and stop opposing it.

Best things we can do are: keep being loud about it each time, look out for sophisticated attempts to sneak it into law elsewhere, and don't let it distract from a potentially even worse move.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh yeah it can't do anything complicated, only on simple modules. And I usually give it pretty detailed instructions on my expected I/O. It just converts a few sentences of English to dozens of lines of code.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Windows hate train looks fun, but as someone who works in the industry, most of that code is probably just unit tests and boilerplate stuff.

    Copilot is decent at quickly writing huge amounts of mostly correct, tedious unit test code, depending on your language/framework. And since Microsoft works with languages like C# and .NET for their native apps, and likely backend too, there is quite a bit of verbosity that Copilot can take care of. Also, documentation might count as well.

    No real code is AI-generated. He's just saying shit like this to keep idiot investors happy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I haven't encountered this luckily. The only use case I can imagine is syncing alarms and timers across devices? But...I use timers for working, and alarms for waking up. I don't really want those to sync across devices. And it doesn't really seem worth a backup - it takes 30 seconds to set a new alarm.

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