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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
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I think I could have states my opinion better. I think LLMs total value remains to be seen. They allow totally incompetent developers to occasionally pass as below average developers. Is that good or bad? I don't know. What an average and excellent developer can do with LLM assistance is less clear. Certainly it can help those developers in some situations.
This is a baseless assertion from your end, and a purely personal one.
My anecdotal evidence is that the best software engineers I know use these tools extensively to get rid of churn and drudge work, and they apply it anywhere and everywhere they can.
I'm don't disagree. Good developers use the tools to do better, but its incremental not revolutionary improvements for already competent developers.