Comment by prisenco
1 year ago
I give every AI tool a college try and have since the copilot beta.
I’m simply not interested in having these tools type for me. Typing is nowhere near the hardest part of my job and I find it invaluable as a meditative state for building muscle memory for the context of what I’m building.
Taking shortcuts has a cost I’m not willing to pay.
If your position is to find fault then that’s what you will accomplish.
I'm speaking from experience and observation of the past two years of LLM assistants of various kinds that outsourcing code production will atrophy your skills generally and will threaten your contextual understanding of a codebase specifically over the long term.
If that's a risk you're willing to take for the sake of productivity, that can be a reasonable tradeoff depending on your project and career goals.
It'll atrophy whose skills?
I'm using it to increase my own.
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