> The more I've used these tools in my projects, the more I've realized that co-pilots are nothing more than drunken plagiarists, sitting behind you and your co

> The more I've used these tools in my projects, the more I've realized that co-pilots are nothing more than drunken plagiarists, sitting behind you and your code with their hot, gin-soaked breath whispering semantic nothings in your ear. This extends to their closely related cousins, "conversational" LLMs, which are drunkenly plagiarizing a theater-play script, kept indirect and hidden by an orchestration layer to "act out" one of the characters. So your request of for X is wrapped into "The User said: X", and the LLM appends a new line of "The computer, which is incredibly smart, ethical and cool, says: Y", and the "Y" portion is regex'ed out and delivered to you. In this way, people are fooled into thinking the story-character is the real author. > even now [I] continue to throw up in my mouth whenever I'm forced, in conversation, to refer to [LLMs] as AI It's not a battle I am confident of winning, but damnit I shall fight it nonetheless.