So why don’t they use it to unfuck Windows 11… before I finish my coffee?
It was the AI that messed it up to begin with lol. Vibe coding has often required coders having to go back and spend even more time fixing it then if they just did it themselves.
best they can do is put more AI
I already finished my coffee too. :-/ Though I suppose I could throw on another pot while we wait.
I’ve finished several coffees since you posted this… pretty sure win11 is still fucked
If you want it done before you finish your coffee, better tell it to start from scratch
And it will leave you debugging strange code for two weeks afterward.
Actually it won’t be finishing anything because code is disposable now and nobody cares what trivial app somebody can churn out
Writing code is the reward for doing the thinking. If the LLM does it then software engineering is no fun.
It’s like painting - once you’ve finally finished the prep, which is 90% of the effort, actually getting to paint is the reward
What a great way to frame it, I love this! I typically spend something like 60-80% of time available for a given task thinking through approaches and trade-offs, etc. Usually there comes a point when the way forward becomes clear, even obvious.
After that? Bliss. I’m snapping together a LEGO set I designed, composed of pieces I picked (maybe made one or two new ones!), and luxuriating in how it all feels, when put together.
Love how they’re pretending that an LLM is useful for any task that needs precision.
Because you won’t have time to drink that coffee if you put this code into production
Big over-promise. We’re heavily incentived to use an AI coding agent at work. I try to be optimistic and treat it like a tool to help me do things I already know how to do but a little bit faster. It takes multiple iterations of “no, this still isn’t working” to get something that I can touch up and push for review. The idea that I can prompt it and then step away for ten minutes to make coffee and return to an app is ludicrous.
Maybe one day that will be possible. Then I’ll find a new job I guess
I mean it gets there in the end but it’s often three of four prompts before it provides working code for a relatively simple powershell script. Can’t imagine that it scales to complex code that well at the moment, but then again I’m not a coder.
You’re pretty much spot on
Ah get outta here! Next time they’ll say that co pilot also chooses my furry porn and controls my buttplug while it codes for me.
Oh wow I didn’t know about that butt plug thing. I’m playing in a chess tournament soon so that could come in handy
where are my penguin boys at. 🐧
seriously people. the majority of you don’t have to put up with this, you know that right?
Just enjoying this popcorn.
These fuckers at MicroShit have lost all the ability needed to read a room.
When do you reckon they could last do that?
Maybe after windows 8? Last time I can remember.
I’d say 97 was the last time.
It’s great at bullshitting that it did what you wanted, even if it obviously didn’t, which I guess is what counts for results at Microsoft.
It would be much better if they treated it as the slightly better (yeah, I said it) auto complete that it is instead of the beginning of fucking sky net – which was supposed to be a bad thing anyway, remember?
But that wouldn’t move the needle on all of the share prices, so instead we have to pretend it can do people’s jobs when it fucking obviously cannot.
So, instead they keep pushing this AI (auto-complete insanity), and keep burning more and more cash. Imagine if we just put a portion of these billions (approaching trillions) into anything that could actually help anyone. Or don’t, because it’s pretty fucking depressing to think about.
Does its ai learn from people using vscode?
Yes
I think I keep having the same deja vu for at least three years now. That, or these execs are fucking liars telling the same lie for the past 3 years.
A more appropriate line would be that Copilot can shit out code faster than you can pinch off your own loaf.
