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by breck 1160 days ago
> If you think co-pilot is cool now, just wait and see what it does in 5 years.

What will it do? It can't write exponentially better code. Maybe 50% better, so that I would need to edit it's outputs less often. The only thing I could see it doing exponentially better would be writing _less_ code. Telling me "stop! close this file. close this project. you are working on the wrong thing!"

Technology can jump sharply but then go relatively flat. We still haven't gone back to the moon, 50 years later. We still don't have at-home nuclear power plants.