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Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
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I've seen enough programmers blindly copypasting code from stackoverflow and other forums without thinking and never understanding the thing they just "wrote", to know that tools like copilot won't make programmers worse, they will allow more people to be bad programmers.
people need to read more code, play around with it, break it and fix it to become better programmers.
Hehe, good point.
I think AI bots can help with that. It's easier now to play around with code which you could not write by yourself, and quickly explore different approaches. And while you might shy away from asking your colleagues a noob question, ChatGPT will happily elaborate.
In the end, it's just one more tool in the box. We need to learn when and how to use it wisely.