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   Mark Gardner (mjgardner@social.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 07:32:23 JST Mark Gardner

   *Very* damning indictment of #GitHubCopilot as a professional-grade #programming tool from a former core #FreeBSD team member and current #LLVM and #IoT developer.

   https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113690087142854474

   My favorite bit:

   > “It’s great for boilerplate!” No. APIs that require every user to write the same code *are broken*. Fix them, don’t fill the world with more code using them that will need fixing when the APIs change.

   #AI #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #coding #debugging

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     kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 07:34:19 JST kuteboiCoder

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     @mjgardner@social.sdf.org
     
     I feel like if I needed to #write and #rewrite the headers for a helloworld.c #program a whole bunch of times, I would simply save a copy of helloworld.c on my hard drive