[dkersten]

IMHO its worse because on StackOverflow, people can comment, upvote/downvote, add their own answers etc if the random code has issues or shortcomings or is a bad idea for whatever reason. With copilot, you have to trust it or trust that you can figure out if there are issues (which, if you're a beginner learning, you probably can't and according to that security articleq[1], in many cases even experienced programmers may not notice[2]). With StackOverflow, that's also the case, except you have many more eyes vetting it.

[1] https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/be18e11beb2e12433d93475d7...

[2] Two quotes from the article: "Oh, and they're both wrong." and "Both look plausibly correct at a glance". If the entire selling point is to write code faster, are we really going to give the code more than a glance? Personally, I find figuring out code I didn't write a lot harder than writing it from scratch, in most cases, because I understand my intent, while I don't understand the intent of others without some deep thinking.