Flutterby™! : Code generation vs productivity

RT Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst@hachyderm.io

The fundamental flaw with pitching CoPilot as a massive productivity boost is that its goal is to make it faster and easier to generate code.

As a programmer, you don't want to generate code. You want to solve problems; the less code involved the better. I don't want tools that will generate repetitive code, I want less repetition.

https://github.blog/2022-09-07...oper-productivity-and-happiness/ shows the problem. "Less mental effort on repetitive tasks", sure, but you should be trying to prevent the repetition, not do more of it.