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I code for a living and Copilot can't do the least part of my job, though it is possible it could find uses here and there around the fringes (perhaps not even
by Applejinx 4y ago
I code for a living and Copilot can't do the least part of my job, though it is possible it could find uses here and there around the fringes (perhaps not even then).
I'm coding audio DSP along the lines (real example here) of, "Given that the Dolby noise reduction system is deeply part of the sound of classic seventies and eighties recording, what parts of it can be generalized to make DSP processing producing the same general effects on the sound, and having done so, how should this be tweaked and adjusted to optimize for pleasurable results?"
This doesn't exist on Copilot. Damn near nothing I do for work exists on Copilot, and even if it (being an MIT-licensed public code library) gets slurped up into Copilot, Copilot has absolutely no way to determine whether a 0.8273 in the algorithm should be leaning towards 0.83 to brighten the sound of something happening, that it would do this, or why you'd want brighter rather than darker, or whether you are right in wanting this or would do better to go darker knowing that other things will happen to the listening experience.
Copilot's inability to do these things is much like Dall-E's inability to do art. There is much visualization and a striking absence of purpose or intention. With Copilot, it will do all the boring or common stuff for you. If that's your job, maybe you're not aiming at the strengths of humans, rather you are aiming at things too easy to automate…