Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for art?

Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by unconed on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:47AM (#31873579)

I find it weird people are focusing so much on the tech, instead of the kind of person who would use it.

After decades of professional software development, it should be clear that code is a liability. The more you have, the worse things get. A tool that makes it easy to crank out a ton of it, is exactly the opposite of what we need.

If a coworker uses it, I will consider it an admission of incompetence. Simple as that.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by grassmudhorse on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:05AM (#31873661)

I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by unconed on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:49AM (#31881720)

I don't use autoformat, because it gets things wrong constantly. E.g. taking two similar lines and wrapping one but not the other, because of 1 character length difference. Instead I explicitly line my code out by hand to emphasize structure.

I also hate 90% of default linter rules because they are pointless busywork designed to catch noob mistakes.

These tools keep devs stuck in local maxima of mediocrity. It's like writing prose with a thesaurus on, and accepting every single suggestion blindly.

I coded for 20 years without them, why would I need them now? If you can't even fathom coding without these crutches, and think this is somehow equivalent to coding in a bare notepad, you are proving my point.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by Kstarek on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:13AM (#31874593)

This is an idiotic take. Tools that increase efficiency are good actually

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by unconed on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:46AM (#31881705)

It is not more efficient to write endless permutations of the same concepts. It creates a maintenance nightmare.

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