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1. Thoren+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-10-27 21:23:42
In my opinion, Copilot is going to become one of those "perceived authorities" that have just enough legitimacy to be blindly trusted by the inexperienced, but not enough to actually be useful to the experts.

This is like social media (or even the Internet as a whole) and say, our parents' generation. Countless times I receive links to Facebook posts or random articles that somebody thinks must be true, simply because The Oracle (i.e. their smartphone) showed it to them. For much of the older generation, smartphones are these all-knowing repositories of wisdom, and anything they come across while using them is likely to be true. This is why I think misinformation has spread so easily.

I imagine Copilot going down a similar path. The next generation of programmers who didn't grow up with knowing how to sift through API docs or SO answers for the right bit of code, or who's attention spans have been fizzled away, will love the idea of Copilot. Instant gratification in the firm of a tool that can seemingly do your work for you. This will be dire consequences for their ability to code and think for themselves.

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