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Also, Copilot literally makes shit up when it takes notes. There are a dozen malpractice lawsuits in the system right now bc doctors used Copilot and its errors seriously endangered the lives of their patients.

I know you can't, but you should just tell him "I prefer my notes to be accurate".

@VeeRat I had to explain to someone that the act of taking the notes is 99% if the value for me. I almost never actually go back and read them. For me also, paper is better than electronic.

But also zombies.

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As everyone knows, the process is meaningless. Only the outputs have any value.

@VeeRat There's this thing where people are indifferent to the results but intensely concerned everyone is doing things in the correct way.

A subset of the impulse to prescriptive norms, more or less; "this works for me, it has to work for you".

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alias copilot_cli=cat

"Oh yes it works wonders"

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Speculation: boss finds it difficult to take good notes and thus sees CoPilot’s notes as an improvement.

You keep doing what you’re doing, which probably runs circles around the both of them.

@VeeRat > Ugh. Writing it myself helps me LEARN and REMEMBER.

Once written, twice learned.

Writing code, for example. It's slower than asking the pasteurized process code product generator to do it. But the code slopperizer only gives you code. Writing it yourself gives you, and any organization you work for, both code and understanding.

And I don't just mean the detailed step-by-step "this is what the code does to address some specific need" sort of understanding, though that's also true. It's also an understanding of how you got there, what tradeoffs you made (and so what you might need to address in a few weeks or months), how other people have approached a related problem, or a bit of code your code interacts with in some way, and thus how you need to handle this particular case (it'll be different for different people), and so many other kinds of learning and understanding that can't just be pulled from the code slopperizer.

@VeeRat Handwriting is hard for me. And I can't remember the things I just wrote down (unless I read them multiple times afterwards). I also can't listen to what someone is saying and create usable notes at the same time. My note-taking strategy usually involves either getting someone else to share their notes with me, or sitting down alone afterwards to write down everything I remember.

I still would not use CoPilot for note-taking because I like my notes to be accurate and on-topic!

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They _literally_ don't understand what you mean. I'm the same as you in this respect. The _act_ of writing is valuable. Not the artifact writing produces but the _act_. It's valuable to me personally and I'm not going to stop just because somebody has an AI/LLM/RNG-machine buzz.

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