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The Copilot Delusion (deplet.ing)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The thing I hate the most about AI and it's ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul—brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots. [...]

There was once magic here. There was once madness.

Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were artists. They wrote code like jazz musicians—full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.

Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard—born to be great—is going to get told to "review this AI-generated patchset" for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin.

Unusually well-written piece on the threat AI poses to programming as an art form.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until it gives you a list of books and two thirds don't exist and the rest aren't even in the library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The worst I've got so far hasn't been hallucinated "books", but stuff like functions from a previous major version of the api mixed in.

I'm most of the time on the opposite side of the AI arguments, but I don't think it's unreasonable to use an LLM as a documentation search engine. The article itself also points out copilot's usefulness for similar things, but seems the opinion lost the popular vote here.