I’ve only used Copilot with the option to use open source code disabled. It’s taken the boredom out of dealing with boilerplate heavy code and manual copy/paste - stuff you could already handle with templates snippets and keyboard macros of course - but as you say it’s not really much good for anything else, and I’ve seen plenty of code that is hard to review because an LLM created it.
In terms of what the article calls skill atrophy, this is probably why I limit my usage to snippets on steroids. I tried GPT4 more directly a few times and while it was all impressive at the start, it’s all surface level and the hallucinations are bad but incredibly subtle.
In terms of what the article calls skill atrophy, this is probably why I limit my usage to snippets on steroids. I tried GPT4 more directly a few times and while it was all impressive at the start, it’s all surface level and the hallucinations are bad but incredibly subtle.