They think they can hire less SWE because of it. Though from my experience all benefits it gives are neutralized by mistakes or does. I have to pay more attention to what it produces to find bugs (and they are subtle, and even then successfully sneak them).

I also frequently notice that I actually can produce more concise code for my user case.

And it is plagiarizing (Microsoft apparently provides some legal protection against a lawsuit, but I don’t know if that is for everyone).

A while ago I found a bit less popular code and it came with library. I didn’t like their implementation so I started writing my own and copilot basically was suggesting the code from the library I tried to rewrite.

I’m wondering about why they got fooled. Have they noticed that LLM can do a better job than then and they think that this will also translate to software engineering?

Copilot is shit.

Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

I haven’t played it, but people say Being a dik game is quite good.

It’s the Register, it is targeted to people familiar with technology.

Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.

I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.

Musk on the other hand already experiments on adding ideology and use such bots (makes as regular users) on social media.

Microsoft said this, but this likely applies to AWS and GCP too.