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by Terr_ 752 days ago
Counter-analogy: This is ultimately people copy-pasting the first answer they see from a web-forum. That's been bad advice for decades, and the same underlying problems remain because most of them involve human foibles and allocating attention.

What these tools change is making the process much faster and adding a (rather questionable) imprimatur of quality from a vendor that may not actually be a good curator of code-samples.