| In this case the featre isn't unnecessary and would serve a useful purpose if it were just a query. I wouldn't object to AI writing that feature to get it out quickly. I'm not anti-AI entirely. However, someone has taken a useful feature and has made it worse to shoe-horn in copilot interaction. Clicking this button also had a side-effect of an email from Github telling me about all the things I could ask copilot about. The silver lining is that email linked to copilot settings, where I could turn it off entirely. https://github.com/settings/copilot/features AI is incredibly powerful, especially for code-generation. But It's terrible ( at current speeds ) for being the main interface into an application. Human-Computer interaction benefits hugely from two things: - Speed
- Predictability This is why some people prefer a commandline, and why some people can produce what looks like magic with excel. These applications are predictable and fast. A chat-bot delivers neither. There's no opportunity to build up muscle-memory with a lack of predictability, and the slowness of copilot makes interaction just feel bad. |