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It's a concern I have too, when I get tired, I start to just delegate to co-pilot suggestions as I get desperate, if I didn't have co-pilot, I'd probably just log off for the day.

I actually don't really use copilot as I didn't find it that helpful, so I don't really have the problem anymore, but I could see it was a danger. Bit like driving when tired.

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I look at is as asking an intern to do some work that I don't have time for. Do I have to check their work? Yes. Might I have to correct and guide the outcome? Again, yes. Am I going to ask them to implement something novel and groundbreaking? Not really, that'd be a disaster unless they are a prodigy. None of that removes my capacity, or any kind of danger.

It's funny, the slowness of the intern is probably a feature. You delegate, and you don't have to deal with it until you are refreshed.

With AI, you delegate, and then you need to review in the next minute while you are still exhausted.

if you don't have time to do work then you don't have time to mentor an intern doing that work

if you're just delegating work you don't have an intern, you have an undercompensated employee

I find this absolutely nothing like delegating to an intern personally. Interns usually do their best because they will be held accountable if they don't.

Copilot doesn't give a shit about that.

thank you for mentioning this

I don't know how to articulate it, but wherever I hear the financial analysts talking about how much work AI is going to do for us, I just have this spidey-sense that they're severely underestimating the social aspect of why anyone tries to achieve a good outcome

they think they can just spend 100,000$ on GPUs and get 10x the output of someone buying a house and raising kids getting paid a 6 figure salary

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