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Re:Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming by loosetypewriter on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @03:58PM (#41514838)
If you are an experienced coder, then you know which tasks are useless chores. It's a different issue for newdevs who will be learning to code with tool assistance.
Re:Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming by emporas on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @05:45PM (#41515604)
New devs, by the time they will become senior devs, the tools will be 10x better. 10x in 3 years is very conservative, it may as well be 100x, not even considering runaway intelligence.

In 2 days, GPT, Claude and Llama 3 helped me solve 4 different problems. 1) I wanted to load in a webpage a json file, parse and read it, using Rust + webassebly. GPT solved it in 10 minutes. 2) Then i wanted to use this code and make it as a Chrome browser extension. GPT solved it as well. 3) Then i wanted to parse recursively directories with Rust source code, run tree-sitter queries, get the points and print matches, not with cli but using the libraries. GPT solved it in an hour. 4) Right now i finished analyzing a git repo, and fetching all branches and commit messages using git2. Llama 3 + Claude Sonet solved it in an hour or two.

DHH did an interview yesterday [1] in which he mentions that he will be programming by hand even if everyone else uses A.I. assistance. I think he is pretty smart and he will not be stuck in the era of meaty fingers pressing keyboards to make programs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEy9JhHk6lg

Re:Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming by raxxorraxor on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:51AM (#41518852)
And parsing text is quite foundational. Although today I would need to think hard to find a language, where you don't have a ready to use XML/JSON parser ready at hand.

Perhaps there is no reference implementation in Pancake Stack, but your language has to be quite arcane to not have something available.