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If I see someone boasting about programming with AI, in 0.1% of cases they use it responsibly (as a tool to quickly get introduced into a topic and brainstorm ideas) and the rest of times they're probably a script kiddie letting ChatGPT do advent of code or smth and calling themselves programmers.
Same thing with all the folks who took the "copy pasting from stackoverflow" joke literally.
I regularly have to find guidance online through code examples, but you need to understand what the code you've found actually does under the hood for when it inevitably has issues because it wasn't made for your specifc use case.
Do people actually copy and paste code with no understanding of how it works, from SO or Copilot? I always thought this was just a joke.
I feel like there is almost no chance of a copilot program working as expected without having an understanding of the code it writes. It makes some hilariously bad choices at times, and frequently drops and changes code that was added previously.