• FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Oh sweet irony… I remember butting heads with techbros on this very platform about their misguided intuition that people criticizing LLMs were going to be left out (assuming I or others had never tried them).

    Yeah, I write enough bugs on my own, I’ll pass on the 41% more, thank you very much.

    Sure, I know this study needs to be replicated and should not be considered to be a holy truth… But the issues with the tech do pile up, and they’re not just ethical concerns about resource usage. There’s a new study like this one every week.

    • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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      I got used to using Copilot for a project that had it be accessible for very junior programmers (thus: lots of explanation in comments). It worked great, creating a chunk of boilerplate for each described function.

      It’s absolutely useless in the real world. Code is 5+ years old, crosses over various coding conventions and does not use the stuff seen as default on StackOverflow.

      Copilot couldn’t figure out what I wanted. Intellij’s long list of internal If-statements does the job though, and saves on a few households of power consumption.