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It's the old "C vs. Assembly" all over again.

• lazide 4y ago
  Not quite - C is predicable(ish). It would be like C vs Asm if there was no stable language spec, platform spec, or compiler. I think it’s more like WYSIWYG website generators (anyone remember Cold Fusion? The biz guys LOVED that - for like a year).
  • galdosdi 4y ago
    Cold Fusion isn't WYSIWYG (although it was intended to eventually be, and that never panned out haha), are you thinking of DreamWeaver or MS FrontPage?
    • lazide 4y ago
      I must be remembering the marketing copy and not how well it worked out.
• mort96 4y ago
  Except that it's not. I can be reasonably sure that my C compiler will generate correct machine code if my C code is correct. I can also treat the generated machine code as a build artifact which can be thrown away and re-generated on demand; I can treat my C code as my only source of truth. None of these things are true for Copilot, you need to keep around and maintain the generated code, and you can't just assume that the generated code is correct if your input is correct.