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@mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st Also not to mention that if you actually use Copilot or whatever while programming, you will never become better than the average programmer.

Language models only repeat stuff that someone has already figured out before them. Due to the nature of they are trained they are completely incapable of coming up with original ideas or innovations, you still need a human behind the keyboard for that.

I think they are only really useful for implementing very generic and well known solutions, automating chores, refactoring existing code or writing boilerplate classes and such. Still useful, but not game changing.

I also tend to notice that people who rely on language models too much while writing code make a lot of mistakes.