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using GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequence (archive.is)
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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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