So, my #Copilot trial just expired, and while it did cut down on some typing, it also made me feel like the quality of my code was lower, and of course it felt dirty to use it considering that it's a license whitewashing machine.
I don't think I will be paying for it, I don't think the results are worth it.
#copilot as "smart snippet/autocomplete" tool is about as good as it should be. If you find that Copilot is actually doing a good job writing your logic, or getting even close, you either (a) aren't doing very much engineering, or (b) are writing code that doesn't need to be written.
@glyph anyone who’s been in this industry knows that writing the code is the easy part. It’s maintaining and debugging code that is hard. #copilot is shockingly bad at every single attempt to fix even the smallest of bugs.
I tried to get it to catch an off by one error causing at out-of-bounds read, and it had no clue what to do. semgrep, on the other hand, pointed it out immediately.
Why learn CSS when you can just slap some Tailwind on things? Why learn HTML when you can just chuck a few (hundred) React components into your app? Hell, why learn to code at all when you can just ask #Copilot or #ChatGPT and copy/paste the result?
Because the result looks and works like shit. That’s why.
“AI” as currently hyped is giant billion dollar companies blatantly stealing content, disregarding licenses, deceiving about capabilities, and burning the planet in the process.
It is the largest theft of intellectual property in the history of humankind, and these companies are knowingly and willing ignoring the licenses, terms of service, and laws that us lowly individuals are beholden to.
I guess we wait this one out until the “AI” bubble bursts due to the incredible subsidization the entire industry is undergoing. It is not profitable. It is not sustainable.
It will not last—but the damage to our planet and fallout from the immense amount of wasted resources will.
#work One of our marketing people has started using Microsoft Copilot in chat and email conversations. The quality of conversation is noticeably lower, and also more tedious for me. Since figuring it out I stopped interacting with them in writing, and just wait for a call.
Is it time for organizations to have some etiquette or policy rule on this? Or is this already in place in many organizations?
Asked #Copilot (formerly #BingChat) a familiar riddle but with numbers changed to make it impossible. It generated the same solution but substituting the numbers so that it ends up with the nonsense claim:
Microsoft 365 is sneaking in AI integrations even without the CoPilot subscription. Here in Teams, I create an announcement. Microsoft Designer (Preview) has an AI module that generates various (bad) choices to display a fancy banner.
The sad and hilarious thing is that computer nerds already control the means of production they're just not doing anything with it other than what they're told.
@mhoye Then, they opted for #github to host their code, they built it around Github's CI/CD. They adopted #copilot. Ah, they also built their community on #discord and release their work on centralized proprietary platforms (e.g. #googleplay). Now, they own nothing.
I just tried the Windows CoPilot demo that seems to be part of Windows 10 now ... I get 30 free uses by the looks of it - here is my prompt: "make a picture of an american muscle car driving towards the camera with a wide angle showing police cars in pursuit. The style should be neo tokyo and the muscle car should be black with dark windows. The buildings should be tall and there should be a low sun in the background highlighting everything", and here are the results :) #tokyo#copilot
"I'm sorry for talking so much to you the A.I. But I'm reflecting on todays work, and I like to express it, and I've great conversations with you. But now I'll stop, so you can use your server resources for other people's questions more effectively! Thank you for listening."
I've been playing with both #ChatGPT and #Copilot for a little while, and I think I might be the first person on the whole internet to have written a blog post about it!