Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35627632
My new favourite is asking GitHub copilot (which I would not pay for out of my own pocket) why the code I’m writing isn’t working as intended and it asks me to show it the code that I already provided.
I do like not having copy and paste the same thing 5 times with slight variations (something it usually does pretty well until it doesn’t and I need a few minutes to find the error)
Except AI doesn’t say “Is this it?”
It says, “This is it.”
Without hesitation and while showing you a picture of a dog labeled cat.
I guess whether it’s worth it depends on whether you hate writing code or reading code the most.
Probably a mathematician or physicist somewhere.
I hate reading the code I wrote two days ago.
Still, you get there in two-thirds of the time. I’ll leave it to people with the budget for CoPilot to say if it feels like less work.
