[slashdev]

Please don't use copilot, decide it's not worth the risk for your company. In the great competition that is the labor market, copilot is giving me a leg up on everyone who isn't using it. It's the biggest single tool based improvement to my productivity since JetBrains.

[smcleod]

I was sort of thinking the same thing - it's been such a positive impact on my productivity and time. If other people don't want to use it - don't, but you're not going to stop me and it's only going to get better as more competition arises and we finally have decent on-device options.

[paulryanrogers]

> ... but you're not going to stop me

Take care making public statements like this if your work is highly attributable / traceable.

[paulryanrogers]

What do you think of folks who secretly outsource their programming work? It certainly gives them a leg up in the market.

[eloff]

I don't think it does. The people who are doing that are probably not that good to begin with. The people they outsource to are not that good. And then you have to communicate requirements to them, and manage them. I wouldn't be more productive doing that unless I had a whole team behind me, and then I'd be a manager, not a programmer anymore.

I think I'm deliberately ignoring the tortured argument you're trying to make that copliot is similarly unethical - which is just ridiculous. It deserves to be ignored.