Anyways, https://github.com/ojacobson?tab=repositories
I know, this is barn doors and horses; any code I had there that was public is presumably part of Copilot's corpus forever, and at some level that's what I agreed to by using the service.
I'm not going to be party to Microsoft's next effort on this front.
@owen We have a senior dev at $dayjob who is now asking the head of software whether or not we should ban the use of copilot; it isn't clear from his perspective that it's much different from generic scaffolding ... but it isn't clear.
Squeenix being horny on main again, hypno
We'll see whether this works, but the medium-term risk here is that we eliminate the junior developer role in its entirety, and just slam the gates shut on this career path for a while.
Worse, it's pitched at developers, not at hiring managers. So the downward pressure is implicit, and largely invisible: instead of competing against copilot, you're now competing against developers who use copilot, on the premise that if you don't, then you cost more money than they do for similar results (or produce fewer results for the same money).
Whether it can actually deliver that isn't really material - whether people with the capacity to make hiring and budget decisions _believe_ it works is what matters.
Here's the theory: for $100/seat/year, Copilot promises to deliver code that's about on part with what a first-year employee ($50k-$150k/yr, depending on local market) can deliver.
You still need a competent developer to wrangle it, but you need that with junior developers, too.
circles "you are here" on the right half of a log-normal distribution, skateboards out of the room
zero return values: bad. what are you calling this for, a side effect? come on.
one return values: amazing. perfect. formally interesting. galaxy brain stuff.
two return values: pretty great. can give more information, or pass keys and values in the same response. very practical-minded.
three or more return values: no, get out.
Turnaround time on interesting suggestions/questions: between 2d and 2y.