To safely put it out just pee on it.
It says it will finish the code, it doesn’t say the code will work.
I was going to say. The code won’t compile but it will be “finished “
A couple agent iterations will compile. Definitely won’t do what you wanted though, and if it does it will be the dumbest way possible.
Yeah you can definitely bully AI into giving you some thing that will run if you yell at it long enough. I don’t have that kind of patience
Edit: typically I see it just silently dump errors to /dev/null if you complain about it not working lol
Copilot keeps finishing my code for me in near real time… it completely disrupts my train of thought and my productivity dropped tremendously. I finally disabled it.
I LIKE writing code, stop trying to take the stuff away that I WANT to do and instead take away the stuff I HATE doing.
I had a bit of a breakthrough with some personal growth with my code today.
I learned a bit more about entity framework that my company is using for a project, and was able to create a database table, query it, add/delete/update, normal CRUD stuff.
I normally work mostly on front end code, so it was rewarding to learn a new skill and see the data all the way from the database to the UI and back - all my code. I felt great after doing a code review this afternoon to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, and we talked about some refactoring to make it better.
AI will never give you that.
No, but it can help a capable developer to have more of those moments, as one can use LLMs and coding agents to (a) help explain the relationships in a complicated codebase succinctly and (b) help to quickly figure out why one’s code doesn’t work as expected (from simple bugs to calling out one’s own fundamental misunderstandings), giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.
giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.
Is that been an insufferable prick online? Because I assure you no one wants you to spend more time on that, you spend enough time on that as it is.
Hm? Oh, I obviously misread the room. It seems I interrupted a circle jerk? My apologies.
AI can help you be more agile in getting out a PoC but vibe coding always ends up eating itself and you either aren’t capable enough to fix it (because you are a vibe coder) or you spend more time on the back 9, trying to clean up the code so you don’t have so many hacks and redundancy because the AI was too literal or hallucinated fake libraries that return null or its context window expired and it wrote 5 different versions of the same function
Ooh, unemployment! How exciting! I love Microsoft now.
Seriously who the hell are they trying to sell this to?
Are they just that desperate to keep the hype train going?
Business owners. People that don’t want to spend money on annoying stuff like wages.
The circlejerk of tech bros and busidiots who haven’t built a damn thing in their lives.
Make it de the shit I don’t want to do, then we’ll talk
Copilot, turn on the gas stove without the pilot. Copilot, in 3 hours light the pilot.
My Windows automatically read these instructions from my screen and I died!
You forgot to follow it up with “copilot: open windows” then.
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But, will it work, huh? HUH?
I can also type a bunch of random sentences of words. Doesn’t make it more understandable.
Some models are getting so good they can patch user reported software defects following test driven development with minimal or no changes required in review. Specifically Claude Sonnet and Gemini
So the claims are at least legit in some cases
Oh good. They can show us how it’s done by patching open-source projects for example. Right? That way we will see that they are not full of shit.
Where are the patches? They have trained on millions of open-source projects after all. It should be easy. Show us.
That’s an interesting point, and leads to a reasonable argument that if an AI is trained on a given open source codebase, developers should have free access to use that AI to improve said codebase. I wonder whether future license models might include such clauses.
Will it execute . . . probably.
Will it execute what you want it to . . . probably not.
But… But I don’t want it to. 😮💨
“Microsoft Says Copilot” is like a Two Sentence horror story for me now.
