The #GitHub#Copilot announcement makes sense when you realize that this positions Microsoft even further to monetize the act of #coding itself.
When you handicap #developers and make them so dependent on LLMs to write code, that (eventually) they no longer know how to do so without it, then suddenly the days of working in a free editor are over.
And when just a few big companies control our ability to write any code at all, then eventually we can only write the code they allow, with the tools they control and for the platforms they sell.
And that's if they can't figure out how to make us obsolete completely.
@syntaxseed But to be honest, chatGPT has helped me more with coding than any tutorial ever has, and I don't just mean with showing ready code but to understand flow and concept of the code.
@syntaxseed Sounds to me like the assembly programmers complaining about C programmers, the C programmers complaining about Java programmers, ...
I get your point, but I have no idea how to hunt and forage, how to find my way without GPS, and although it can be seen as losing abilities, it is also learning new abilities.
In the end, is it not a little bit complaining about "the youth of today!"?
But, to be honest, I have similar thoughts and fears about how this will change society.
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