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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming (www.darrenhorrocks.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copilot and other large language models (LLMs) has promised to revolutionise programming. By leveraging deep learning, these tools can generate code, suggest solutions, and even troubleshoot issues in real-time, saving developers hours of work. While these tools have obvious benefits in terms of productivity, there’s a growing concern that they may also have unintended consequences on the quality and skillset of programmers.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Anything that allows people to blindly and effortlessly get results inherently makes them more stupid. Your brain is like any muscle. You need to repeatedly use it for it to work well

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

[–] MajorHavoc 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

They did.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

Yep.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

And yes.

That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.

So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean with the "move fast and break things" mentality of most companies nowadays, I'd say he was spot-on

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