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by bww 1813 days ago
The example in the hero animation has a bug. The ${text} may not be correctly URL-encoded, which would make the body invalid. And because this sort of feature encourages people to blindly trust the machine and not think about what they're doing this error is much less likely to be caught.

Personally I think this whole class of feature only offers trivial short-term efficiency gains at the expense of long-term professional development and deeper understanding of your field.

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I could see it becoming a liability, and projects may start using the fact that they don't use it as a promo thing in their marketing.

> Choose library.js for your next secure project!

> * Military-grade encryption!

> * Industry best-practices!

> * Extensively-tested codebase!

> * No Github Copilot!

This seems to me like someone had a cool idea for using GPT and wanted to experiment with it, but then Microsoft threw money at the marketing people and forced it to become a commercial product.