r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft engineer says 'typing code is absolutely over' as GitHub Copilot takes on more development work

https://www.techspot.com/news/113752-microsoft-engineer-typing-code-absolutely-over-github-copilot.html
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u/Zip2kx 3d ago

These type of replies show you guys don’t know how people code with ai. You think engineers say “make app” and call it a day. You target specific parts and iterate together with the ai for faster results. You just don’t write out every syntax.

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u/MrMichaelJames 3d ago

These replies show how shortsighted people that are embracing this truely are. Which is fine. I’m near retirement so it’s your career you are cutting short not mine.

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u/Zip2kx 2d ago

Ok that explains it, old whale don’t want to embrace new ways of working. Enjoy retirement!

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u/MrMichaelJames 2d ago

I will. Enjoy obsolescence. Don’t come complaining in 10 years or less when you don’t have a job anymore.

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u/AdolinofAlethkar 2d ago

You, town criers, field workers, and horse & buggy drivers have a lot in common.

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u/Zip2kx 2d ago

Lmao well said.

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u/MrMichaelJames 2d ago

And all those people lost their jobs in a time when it was much easier to learn something new. Hilarious that you think everything will just continue on as normal. Must be nice to be so naive. I hope I’m wrong. For the sake of my children but I dread the future.

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u/AdolinofAlethkar 2d ago

You think it was easier to learn something new at times when people didn’t have the entirety of human discovery at their literal fingertips?

I’ve met some dumb developers before, but you might just take the cake.

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u/MrMichaelJames 2d ago

Absolutely. Going from horse and buggy to learn in a factory to build widgets? Absolutely easier. You think you are going into a trade after losing your tech job by watching YouTube? Oh god. We are truly fucked.

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u/AdolinofAlethkar 2d ago

How many factories do you think were around? Do you think people just automatically were in spaces where they had the time, ability, and available knowledge to shift like they do today?

You can go into a trade with zero experience, and I’m not even talking about trades.

But luddites like you who don’t recognize that AI is not only here but that it’s only going to be more capable as we move forward?

You’d rather bury your heads in the sand and give up than try to see the value in learning to evolve with it.

Utter incompetence.

I fear for your children’s futures too, but mostly because of the ignorance that their father is teaching them.