The Copilot Delusion
"(...) Let’s get one thing straight before I resume torching this synthoid hellspawn with the fury of the sun: it ain’t all bad.
Even the grifter at the poker table with a booze lobotomy occasionally hits a flush. And Copilot? Well, sometimes it knows a thing or two.
You’re young. You’ve never touched C++. You’re staring at the syntax like it’s some Martian cave painting. You ask the oracle for help and boom! There it is. Templates, smart pointers, range-based for-loops... syntactically pristine, like it slithered straight out of Bjarne’s brain and onto your screen.
Of course, it doesn’t know the edge cases. It won’t whisper, "Hey! shared_ptr might leak if you get clever and toss raw pointers into the mix like a maniac." It doesn’t point you to the holy scrolls where veterans debate exception guarantees like theologians dissecting scripture. But if you already know what you want and just need the incantation, it’s a better, quicker scribe than most human interns, and it doesn’t complain when you ask it to write template metaprogramming code at 3 a.m. (...)"
Even the grifter at the poker table with a booze lobotomy occasionally hits a flush. And Copilot? Well, sometimes it knows a thing or two.
You’re young. You’ve never touched C++. You’re staring at the syntax like it’s some Martian cave painting. You ask the oracle for help and boom! There it is. Templates, smart pointers, range-based for-loops... syntactically pristine, like it slithered straight out of Bjarne’s brain and onto your screen.
Of course, it doesn’t know the edge cases. It won’t whisper, "Hey! shared_ptr might leak if you get clever and toss raw pointers into the mix like a maniac." It doesn’t point you to the holy scrolls where veterans debate exception guarantees like theologians dissecting scripture. But if you already know what you want and just need the incantation, it’s a better, quicker scribe than most human interns, and it doesn’t complain when you ask it to write template metaprogramming code at 3 a.m. (...)"