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Explains why tools like Copilot seems to be so hyped, yet I as an old school developer really can't find a place where it would help me.

I guess most people really benefit from a tool to autogenerate an Erathostenes sieve in Python or a fizzbuzz function in Prolog or yet another React Router boilerplate.

EDIT: a more nuanced version of this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38965283

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I do really benefit from finally having a way to use shell scripting. Life is too short to remember hundreds of one letter options with obscure combinations

Back in my day, man pages and --help were enough. The thing about great documentation is that it rarely hallucinates.

I imagine you slapping your knee as you started typing that. :)

It’s just a bit more slow.

Copilot is great to do boilerplate, it guesses and completes code correctly most of the time

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