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by noduerme 1484 days ago
Bear with me here because there is some validity to your point and I think it manifests in the current technology. One oddity with copilot is that it invents CSS class names. E.g. if I say:

//a full screen image centered vertically and horizontally, no more than 80% screen height, which removes when you click anywhere, include the CSS in the code

It does actually write some style sheets into the JS...but it then invents a bunch of class names. I went over and opened a CSS doc to see if it would complete those. It didn't, not properly. There's no way this thing can write an intelligently designed application, at present; someone has to read and fully understand everything it spits out. To the extent that we need people to do that, to interpret the AI's guidance, I guess, the priesthood is safe.

But who will train for it, what trainee will understand the language, when the first 99% of what you write is written for you?