PaulSinnema

PaulSinnema

Are tools like CoPilot going to make bad developers?

I’ve tried CoPilot and it gave me insights I never thought of. These kinds of developments have a lot of potential but I’m a concerned.

It’s like using navigation when I drive. The navigation software takes away my concerns of getting to the right address at the right time. That is wonderful. But then the next day ask me to drive to the same location without the tool. I’m sure I cannot do the whole trip from memory because I didn’t need to pay attention during the first drive.

Or another example is the calculator. Kids nowadays don’t know how to calculate out the top of their heads. Ask any kid what the answer is to 5 x 7 and they grab their phone (or calculator) to give the answer.

The statement is that it’s a great learning tool but I think the opposite is true. Our brains are going to be less trained and we become totally addicted to and dependent on using the tools. Is that the way we want to go? I’ve been a developer for 45 years retiring soon but this development gives me worries.

What do you think?

#ai

Most Liked

AstonJ

AstonJ

I think you make some valid points. To me it’s both worrying and exciting, ultimately, at some point there won’t be a need to code - we’ll just tell the computer what we want and it will do it. Probably quicker and more efficiently too :lol:

There are lots of concerns around CoPilot tho, here’s one that cropped up today:

Where Next?

Popular General Dev topics Top

justinjunodev
Figured this would be a cool topic and maybe provide some inspiration for those who are just starting to work from home. Feel free to sha...
New
AstonJ
:smiling_imp: What is your preferred syntax style and why? Perhaps we can add examples and use the code below as a simple reference poi...
New
Exadra37
So, if we can reduce the likelihood, we can reduce the overall risk. That’s good. It’s actually very similar to a very common idea called...
New
Exadra37
Example for a random image with the size of 200x300: For a specific image:
New
AstonJ
It’s great to see how popular some of these channels have become - do you have any favourite YouTuber devs? Ben Awad Code...
New
Rainer
Not sure if following fits exactly this thread, or if we should have a hobby thread… For many years I’m designing and building model air...
New
AstonJ
Do you think it’s worth worrying about? Do you think it’s going to be an even bigger issue in future? If so what can the teams of smaller...
New
AstonJ
Maybe a specific language or framework? Or a book or tool perhaps? What’s made your life easier and what do you think could make the live...
New
AstonJ
I’ve been watching Prag Dave’s Elixir course and I noticed he uses tree: Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a ...
New
harwind
I’m working on a Spring Boot project and I have a controller where I want to map multiple request paths to a single method. Let’s say I h...
New

Other popular topics Top

brentjanderson
Bought the Moonlander mechanical keyboard. Cherry Brown MX switches. Arms and wrists have been hurting enough that it’s time I did someth...
New
DevotionGeo
I know that -t flag is used along with -i flag for getting an interactive shell. But I cannot digest what the man page for docker run com...
New
Exadra37
Oh just spent so much time on this to discover now that RancherOS is in end of life but Rancher is refusing to mark the Github repo as su...
New
DevotionGeo
The V Programming Language Simple language for building maintainable programs V is already mentioned couple of times in the forum, but I...
New
New
AstonJ
We’ve talked about his book briefly here but it is quickly becoming obsolete - so he’s decided to create a series of 7 podcasts, the firs...
New
New
First poster: joeb
The File System Access API with Origin Private File System. WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open,...
New
New
RobertRichards
Hair Salon Games for Girls Fun Girls Hair Saloon game is mainly developed for kids. This game allows users to select virtual avatars to ...
New