It's not so much that Copilot is a threat because it could produce tight, elegant code that handles all the edge cases and so on, but because employers still se

It's not so much that Copilot is a threat because it could produce tight, elegant code that handles all the edge cases and so on, but because employers still see coders as expensive keyboard jockeys whose code is not significantly better than what a Copilot user could cargo-cult into existence. Blaming Copilot feels a bit like the wrong target. Like the Luddites, the real question is the relationship between employer and employee, and how the presence of the machine empowers or endangers the worker. To put it another way. Suppose a perfect Copilot existed, that required a human to drive it but made that human a 10x developer. Do you think they would get paid 10x as much? Or would the worker stay where they were, perhaps under threat of replacement, and the employer take the spoils? https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=28925 https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=28925 Edit: to be clear, I am actually a big fan of Copilot for increasingly one's personal productivity, rather like a super-Google or a non-snarky-Stack Overflow. But I remain rather cynical about how those benefits might work in the new corporate environment.