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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
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Copilot frequently produces results that need to be fixed. Compilers don’t do that. Anyone who uses copilot to generate code without understanding how that code works is a shit developer. The same is true of anyone who copies from stack overflow/etc without understanding what they’re copying.
You're missing the point. If the program doesn't do what it's meant to its YOU that didn't use the tools between you and metal, correctly. LLM involved or not, it's how you've described it, in whatever 'language' you chose (natural or Rust)
The key difference is that compilers don’t fuck up, outside of the very rare compiler bug. LLMs do fuck up, quite often.