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using GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequence (archive.is)
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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, the evident plethora of poor programming practices is the least notable thing about all this; using roided autocomplete to cut corners was never going to be a well calculated decision, it's always the cherry on top of a shit-cake.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago

the upside: we can now watch "disruptive startups" go through the aquire funding -> slapdash development -> catastrophic failure -> postmortem cycle at breakneck speeds

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

roided autocomplete

My autocomplete:

  • written in an hour on a whiteboard for a job interview
  • uses only the finest words, hand-selected by unix
  • speed and size efficient

Roided autocomplete:

  • years of development, billions of dollars of investment
  • hallucinates constantly
  • projected to use all computing capacity at current rates