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Sigh, don't make me tap the sign*. I used to hold Google Chrome in high esteem due to its security posture. Shoehorning AI into it has deleted any respect I he

Sigh, don't make me tap the sign*. I used to hold Google Chrome in high esteem due to its security posture. Shoehorning AI into it has deleted any respect I held for Chrome or the team that develops it. Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback. * The sign: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you...

jimmaswell 2y ago
What a needlessly hostile and cynical blog post. I also can't relate to their appraisal of copilot. It's been an incredible productivity booster for me in how it removes so much cognitive load that's tangential to the problem I'm solving. It mostly completes the same line/s I was about to type, sometimes even pointing out an error in my code when the output is odd. It's also awesome when it spits out 20+ lines unexpectedly that do exactly what I was about to do, taking only a brief moment of code review by me to verify.
- some_furry 2y ago
  > It's been an incredible productivity booster for me in how it removes so much cognitive load that's tangential to the problem I'm solving. It mostly completes the same line/s I was about to type, sometimes even pointing out an error in my code when the output is odd. It's also awesome when it spits out 20+ lines unexpectedly that do exactly what I was about to do, taking only a brief moment of code review by me to verify. If Copilot is so great, why does your employer even need you? Replacing you with Copilot would be more capital-efficient.
- zakkudruzer 2y ago
  Funny, that's been pretty much the opposite of my experience with Copilot (or any other LLM-based code assistant). It constantly spits out lines that are similar to what I was planning to write, but are subtly wrong in ways that take me more time to figure out and fix than it would have to just write it myself in the first place. It's handy if I want a snippet of example code that I could've just found on Stackoverflow, but not useful for anything I actually have to think about.
  - jimmaswell 2y ago
    What language? It's been great for me in C#, Java, JS/HTML/CSS/etc, and xml configs where it can easily learn from all the surrounding boilerplate.
pluto_modadic 2y ago
mataroa is quite... grumpy, but with good cause. I like these kinds of pragmatic, burned out posts from engineers. Sometimes VCs are too much about hype and so very, very distant from reality.

jimmaswell 2y ago

What a needlessly hostile and cynical blog post. I also can't relate to their appraisal of copilot. It's been an incredible productivity booster for me in how it removes so much cognitive load that's tangential to the problem I'm solving. It mostly completes the same line/s I was about to type, sometimes even pointing out an error in my code when the output is odd. It's also awesome when it spits out 20+ lines unexpectedly that do exactly what I was about to do, taking only a brief moment of code review by me to verify.

some_furry 2y ago
> It's been an incredible productivity booster for me in how it removes so much cognitive load that's tangential to the problem I'm solving. It mostly completes the same line/s I was about to type, sometimes even pointing out an error in my code when the output is odd. It's also awesome when it spits out 20+ lines unexpectedly that do exactly what I was about to do, taking only a brief moment of code review by me to verify. If Copilot is so great, why does your employer even need you? Replacing you with Copilot would be more capital-efficient.
zakkudruzer 2y ago
Funny, that's been pretty much the opposite of my experience with Copilot (or any other LLM-based code assistant). It constantly spits out lines that are similar to what I was planning to write, but are subtly wrong in ways that take me more time to figure out and fix than it would have to just write it myself in the first place. It's handy if I want a snippet of example code that I could've just found on Stackoverflow, but not useful for anything I actually have to think about.
- jimmaswell 2y ago
  What language? It's been great for me in C#, Java, JS/HTML/CSS/etc, and xml configs where it can easily learn from all the surrounding boilerplate.

pluto_modadic 2y ago

mataroa is quite... grumpy, but with good cause. I like these kinds of pragmatic, burned out posts from engineers. Sometimes VCs are too much about hype and so very, very distant from reality.