> "Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot."
Look, I respect the heck out of the technical implementation of LLMs, but let's be honest: statistically they produce average code at best and misunderstood/invalid code most often. They re-implement old bugs and obfuscate programmer intent and anyone who is leaning on them for more than a pair assist is making software harder for the rest of us.
The problem is even worse for niche or domain-specific tools, because Copilot acts like it knows what they are - even when it has little to no examples to draw from.
The amount of people showing up in the #YarnSpinner Discord and similar spaces, trying to get other people to spend their free time debugging code the "author" themselves don't understand and couldn't be bothered writing has already exceeded my quota for giving a f*ck about this whole debacle.
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