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Nah, it seems a lot of people are using them wrong? OP seems to also fall in that category. I sit next to many people in pair programming situations and it’s qu
by anonzzzies 2y ago
Nah, it seems a lot of people are using them wrong? OP seems to also fall in that category. I sit next to many people in pair programming situations and it’s quite weird to see very smart programmers using gpt or copilot; they are the ones shouting ‘stochastic parrot’ on forums and yet expect some kind of mind reading magic when using these tools. When I show that you can put a comment for your function, like you should do anyway, and it writes the function, it usually clicks. Many still find it ‘faster and easier’ to write the function themselves and that’s fine, but, like OP, doing things like entering ???? and generally expecting a useful result will not be optimal.
- ern 2y agoYou make an interesting point. I once worked with someone who was brilliant, but had gotten into the field via a math degree, and we were building an enterprise-software product. We tried pair-programming, and he cracked within a few minutes. He couldn't articulate his thought processes verbally. Sounds similar to the scenario you're describing.