Charlie StrossJan 4, 2024
NO FUCK OFF GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP— https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

Ars Technica
Show threadHugo MillsJan 4, 2024

@cstross JFC.

Last night, I was working on a high-priority incident at work, and my boss produced a script to do some of the work. About 10 minutes into trying to make this thing work:

Me: "This method call doesn't have that parameter at all. Was this generated by AI?"
Him: "Yes"
Me: "Fuck that, then. I'm rewriting every line of this using the documentation."

He still thinks it's a good idea. 

Show threadRemco van BreeJan 4, 2024
@darkling @cstross the only area where I see copilot be really useful right now is as fancy autocomplete. It really speeds me up when working in an existing code base, but it needs a human in the loop every step along the way.
Show threadSimon Lucy

@blikkie @darkling @cstross

Do you accept every completion without validating it or do you go hmmm, that's right? In which case it would distract me if I used it, I have enough distractions :-).

Jan 4, 2024 at 7:53pmTusky
Show threadRemco van BreeJan 4, 2024

@simon_lucy @darkling @cstross there's a lot of accept and then edit, so I do end up reading it all.

But one thing I like is that when I have a function with a return type declared and if I e.g. just declared an iterable, I can just type "for " and copilot with suggest a loop that at least roughly does what I want to do

Show threadSimon LucyJan 4, 2024

@blikkie @darkling @cstross

That would probably give me horrible flashbacks of pairing, "Oh, you do it like that, do you?".