[alxjrvs]

Because the marketers oversold it. That is why you are seeing a pushback. I also outright rejected them because 1) they were sold and marketed as end all be all replacements for human thought, and 2) they promised to replace only the parts of my job that I enjoy. Billboards were up in San Francisco telling my "bosses" that I was soon to be replaced, and the loudest and earliest voices told me that the craft I love is dead. Imagine Nascar drivers excitedly discussing how cool it was they wouldn't have to turn left anymore - made me wonder why everyone else was here.

It was, more or less, the same narrative arc as Bitcoin, and was (is) headed for a crash.

That said, I've spent a few weeks with augment, and it is revelatory, certainly. All the marketing - aimed at a suite I have no interest in - managed to convince me it was something it wasn't. It isn't a replacement, any more than a power drill is a replacement for a carpenter.

What it is, is very helpful. "The world's most fully functioning scaffolding script", an upgrade from copilot's "the world's most fully functioning tab-completer". I appreciate it usefulness as a force multiplier, but I am already finding corners and places where I'd just prefer to do it myself. And this is before we get into the craft of it all - I am not excited by the pitch "worse code, faster", but the utility is undeniable in this capitalistic hell planet, and I'm not a huge fan of writing SQL queries anyway, so here we are!