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I do feel for the people behind Copilot, even though they'll have known it was coming. They produce something absolutely frggin' amazing that can change the world and for the next few days all everyone does is pile on and pull it to pieces... yes of course these are valid issues but can we please look at the big picture and appreciate what an achievement this is?

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I agree with this; I'm very confused by what appears to be a very strong visceral reaction to this experimental feature. I don't know what impact it will have on programmers/programming, but I'm curious to see. Personally, I see something like copilot as a terrific search engine. Searching for code in Github is kind of difficult; being able to search by writing a descriptive comment is really cool!

It's only because people like you pretend this glorified markov chain is something more that is causing everyone to pile on. So stop.

> you pretend this glorified markov chain is something more

I hate this belittling attitude that HN has towards projects in certain fields. It's like if I dismissed any progress in graphics as "just glorified triangle-drawing".

> They produce something absolutely frggin' amazing that can change the world

It won't change nothing. It's madlibs for code. The 90% of programmers who are mediocre will drown out the 9% who are competent and the 1% who are talented.

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