I think we're seeing a re-iteration of the last generation's "greybeards vs young hipsters" wars. Last time it was "those hipsters are just copy pasting stuff t

I think we're seeing a re-iteration of the last generation's "greybeards vs young hipsters" wars. Last time it was "those hipsters are just copy pasting stuff they find on Google and call it a day". This time the young hipsters turned greybeards undercutting the good parts of gpt or copilot. That said, I'm really underwhelmed by the output of both those tools in the context of the ongoing hype. They're far away from taking anyone's job. They're producing misleading and even manipulative output in such fine-granular deceiving manners, it's like reading a whole contract in fine-print. Given that our job is already mostly reading and understanding vast amounts of code, I don't really see a productivity boost in reading generated erroneous code. And if it boosts productivity because of boilerplate, we already have plenty of old tools to deal with that. Heck, every CRUD Framework from mid-2000s is better at generating boilerplate code, with 100% correctness. So there's no "big disruptive innovation" going on but new nice-to-have tools. Just know, when not to use it.