That’s the funny thing. I definitely fall into the ‘medium level’ dev group (Coding is my job, but I haven’t written a single line of code in my spare time for years), and frankly - I really like Copilot. It’s like the standard code-completion on steroids. No need to spend excessive amounts of time describing the problem and review a massive blob of dubious code, just short-ish snippets of easily reviewed code based on current context.

Everyone seems to argue against AI as if vibe coding is the only option and you have to spend time describing every single task, but I’ve changed literally nothing in my normal workflow and get better and more relevant code completion results.

Obviously having to describe every task in detail taking edge cases into account is going to be a waste of time, but fortunately that’s not the only option.

I remember being taught Model-driven development using Eclipse as part of the software engineering study back in the early 2000’s. Even as a student it was painfully obvious that you’d spend an awful lot of time trying to work around annoying limitations in whatever tool was used, rather than just writing the code yourself. The parallel to vibe-coding seems rather obvious.

I can’t imagine what they thought they’d get from training on Reddit data…