[h_tbob]

I am a competent coder. I have been a coder since I was in middle school. I know at least 10 languages, and I could write my own from scratch.

I know c++ dart golang java html css javascript typescript lua react vue angular angularjs c# swift sql in various dialects including mysql and postgres, and have worked professionally in all these regards. I love to challenge myself. In fact, if I done something before, I find it boring.

So copilot helps me because I always find something new to do, something I don't understand, something I'm not good at.

So yes, I'm confident I'm competent. But I always do things I'm not good at for fun. So it helps me become well rounded.

So your assertion it only helps me because I'm incompetent is true and false. I'm competent, I just like to do new stuff.

[pdimitar]

That's all very nice but it contains a fatal logical flaw: it assumes CoPilot actually gives you good code. :D

I mean it does, sometimes, but usually it's either boilerplate or something you don't care about. Boilerplate is mostly managed very well by most well-known IDEs. And neither them nor CoPilot are offering good algorithmic code... OK, I'll grant you the "most of the time, not never" thing.

[ruszki]

> I know at least 10 languages

This statement would have been a huge red flag for me, if I had interviewed you. Don't get me wrong, you could use and program in 10 languages. Maybe you can be proficient in many at different times of your life. But know them at once? No.

[CooCooCaCha]

That kinda proves my point. You find it useful when you’re doing something outside your core competencies.

[octodog]

I don't see the problem here. What's wrong with that? Tools are supposed to make your life easier.

[CooCooCaCha]

That’s a different discussion. I’m disputing the claim that AI can make you a 2x dev when it seems like it’s mostly beneficial when you don’t know what you’re doing.