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   Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:14:56 JST Kevin Riggle

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   • Kit Bashir

   @Unixbigot At 38 and an early starter I’m pretty much the end of the generation that learned to code by typing in BASIC listings from magazines and books, and I say pretty often that it taught certain useful skills like hunting for that one-character mistake

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     pinskia (pinskia@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:14:56 JST pinskia

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     • Kit Bashir

     @kevinriggle @Unixbigot I learned that way but instead of directly into BASIC, I turned the code from BASIC to C; I didn't have a basic compiler at the time only a C one.

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     Kit Bashir (unixbigot@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 12:14:57 JST Kit Bashir

     Observed: "we love CoPilot because it makes us so productive!"

     Outcome: So much babytalk code is repeated. over. and. over. because it autocompleted and nobody had to stop and think about refactoring.

     Corollary: Any given comment is wrong because it was part of the template completion and nobody customised it.

     Conclusion: Copilot enables bloated code and unreliable documentation.

     tl;dr: having to type code in like it's the Dirt Ages causes you to want to make it shorter, and smarter.