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Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year (www.npr.org)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But it still ultimately requires you in that chair to correct issues.

I don't doubt for a second that time is saved, especially in the boilerplate parts of writing code, but it's not going to remove you from that chair.

From my experience, Copilot is helpful, but we're talking a few steps above templates, Clippy 3.0, if you will. The bit that blew my mind a bit was realising just how much code I write is the essentially the same. "Automating" that has been a great help, but - like with the marketing stuff - it's not at a point where it can do it alone.

It's the same with driving, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There are lots of awesome things that help me with my job but still require me to be there. But you were saying the help it gives with the job is more limited than it seems to be at first. And I’m just saying in my line of work it’s actually a huge help.

It’s not like Clippy or templates. I have to spend time setting up templates and following a specific structure and syntax, remembering to use them. With Copilot I turned it on one day and it was instantly helping me with whatever I was working on, and continues to do so no matter what comes up.

I wasn’t making any assertion that it could do my job without me, but it seems far more useful in what I do than what you had described.