[incorrecthorse]

> they've gone from barely stringing together a TODO app to structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories in 3 years.

No they didn't. They're still at the step of barely stringing together a TODO app, and mostly because it's as simple as copying the gazillionth TODO app from GitHub.

[coffeebeqn]

I’ve used copilot recently in my work codebase and it absolutely has no idea what’s going on in the codebase. At best it’ll look at the currently open file. Half the time it can’t seem to comprehend even the current file fully. I’d be happy if it was better but it’s simply not.

I do use chatgpt most recently today to build me a GitHub actions yaml file based on my spec and it saved me days of work. Not perfect but close enough that I can fill in some details and be done. So sometimes it’s a good tool. It’s also an excellent rubber duck- often better than most of my coworkers. I don’t really know how to extrapolate what it’ll be in the future. I would guess we hit some kind of a limit that will be tricky to get past because nothing scales forever