Comment by dlenski

> and recently copilot

I, for one, have never even used ChatGPT. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

I'm a software engineer, pretty highly regarded as very skilled by everyone around me, almost entirely self-taught (programming since age 7), and have worked at 2 household-name companies (and now a spin-off of a third). The only computer science class I've ever taken was a PhD-level introduction to machine learning, in the mid ’90.

I've never seen any task _where the details matter_ that AI appeared to be any good at. For example, I've seen a coworker trying to demo for me how quickly an AI coding assistant could fix a bug in a parser's state machine… but the AI made a mistake, which I spotted immediately.