And old colleague of mine used to teach CS, when students had to send off code they'd written to Cambridge University for it to be compiled and run, and the res

And old colleague of mine used to teach CS, when students had to send off code they'd written to Cambridge University for it to be compiled and run, and the results were then returned, all by post. Then you were able to compile and run code locally on your machine. Then the IDEs came along, with syntax highlighting and then linting. Copilot is just the next evolution in writing code, and saving you the effort. I bet they railed against Timsort and it's inclusion in the Python standard library, but now who honestly writes their own sorting algorithms? This kind of generational gap reminds me so much of the "Kids are spending too much time reading" > "Kids are spending too much time watching TV" > "Kids are spending too much time on their phones" rants.