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by LeifCarrotson
1748 days ago
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> I feel like Copilot is the wrong direction to optimize development. This is mostly going to help people with already poor understanding of what they are doing create even more crap. Sometimes you don't need an expert to produce highly secure, highly optimized code. Have you seen the crap that people buy at Walmart? The furniture is not heirloom furniture, the food is not a 3-star artisanal experience. Have you bought tools at Harbor Freight? They're not the lifetime companion of a tradesman, kept in wood boxes and wrapped in cosmoline after each use. But an awful lot of work gets done with them, common homeowner wisdom is if you need a tool, buy it at Harbor Freight, if you use it enough to wear it out spend 10x to buy a really good one, but most tools you'll only use once or twice. At workplaces across the country right this minute there are human beings doing rote transcription from one application to another, copy-pasting if they're lucky. That's a waste of effort and intellectual potential, and a hodgepodge of Excel equations or a crappy bit of Copilot glue code could be just the ticket. Yes, if those become the business' secret sauce and sold to customers on the Internet, they ought to put some effort into doing it properly, but there's a ton of work that could be accomplished with low-quality code. |
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the difference is that your sofa isn't programmable and networked into every other appliance in your house underpinned by a general purpose computer rife for abuse.
Virtually every piece of software you install is an access point to your machine or your sensitive data. One isolated thing in the analog world breaks down, not a problem. One misconfigured password in a VPN client, and whoops part of your national oil infrastructure goes offline
https://www.reuters.com/business/colonial-pipeline-ceo-tells...