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hnaccy | 3 years ago

Why are programmers so suicidal?

A giant corporation openly steals code from millions of devs and uses to try and automate us and programmers cheer it on.

A billionaire with known poor labor practices buys Twitter and twitter devs make no attempt to organize as lab instead they just write toothless statements.

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bakugo|3 years ago

> A giant corporation openly steals code from millions of devs and uses to try and automate us and programmers cheer it on.

Actual programmers don't cheer it on. Only modern """programmers""" aka professional CTRL+V pressers, the kinds of people that usually "write" software in languages like javascript by importing a few hundred open source libraries and jamming them together until it vaguely does what they want. Copilot is good for these people because using others' code is all they do anyway, AI just helps them do it more efficiently, and without having to worry about all those pesky licenses.

sorwin|3 years ago

Excuse me? I know tons of very skilled programmers who use it, simply because of the time it saves.

I use it regularly in C#, JS, CSS, and hell, C++ ocassionately.

It's not about using other people's code, it's about it saving time by generating pretty much the code I was already going to write (with pretty good accuracy too). Once you have enough knowledge, I see no difference in the code Copilot generates (at least, not any better quality/perf) than I would have written.

So yes, I cheer it on, and I love it. It has made my development life easier. 17+ years of coding, and this has been a big impact for me.

phendrenad2|3 years ago

I don't see many people cheering it on here, in fact most of the news about copilot has been negative. Where do you see positivity?