Comment by verdverm
4 days ago
You sound like you haven't given Copilot and friends a thorough chance or evaluation. If you had, you'd know that...
- people don't outsource, they pair-program, because these things cannot do complex tasks on their own
- they are quite good at running tests with coverage, inspecting the results, and fixing both the tests and code
- people make mistakes, expecting AI to be perfect is unreasonable, they are tools, not replacements
> Making untested garbage faster to check off tasks quicker
> Feels like we're back in primary school learning programming.
> Classic case of gaming the metrics.
plain view bias causes others to discount your opinion
> people make mistakes, expecting AI to be perfect is unreasonable, they are tools, not replacements
This is the key. These tools are an improvement for many people, but others pooh-pooh them for not being perfect. Working in a team with other programmers (or looking at my own older code) I often see mistakes, often obvious to me now.