[jeremyjh]

> Maybe in the world of WP-plugins/typo3 and other simple work, though even those are fairly complex

This was a reasonable position to hold 9 months ago but it’s absurd now. I’m not going to convince you - but you really should give it a try.

[bandrami]

The thing is, in 9 months you'll still say that, talking about now. I know this because I've been hearing this for two years.

[jeremyjh]

I was saying the same thing you are 9 months ago. It isn't the same people that have been saying this for the last two years. Every three to six months there is a new cohort.

[hansmayer]

> but you really should give it a try.

That's cute, I hope you enjoy that high, it's really impressive at first - fyi -I've been using GH Copilot since early days (invited to early access) AND paying it for my entire company ever since MS published the first commercial plan. All the way to the latest entshittification drama with Opus 4.6 being pulled away and Opus 4.7 taxed at 7.5x rate. Yeah, its great for quick tryouts or similar. But using it in wider scope, with complex reqs and dynamic environment? Complete shitshow.

> This was a reasonable position to hold 9 months ago

Browse my comment history. There were people just like you, 6, 9 or 12 months ago telling me exactly the same. Some also threatening that I would "be the first to go away". Like I said, cute actually :) You know in January Dario Amodei announced again, AI would write ALL code in 6 months. Do you see it happening?

[jeremyjh]

>That's cute,

What kind of smug asshole says something like this?

If you think early days of GH Copilot are remotely relevant to what is happening now, we do not live in the same world.

[hansmayer]

> If you think early days of GH Copilot are remotely relevant to what is happening now

Let's learn some English grammar, I had said: "I've been using GH Copilot since early days" . Translated from plain English: "have been using..." = *an action or state starting in the past AND continuing UP TO the present time*. I did not say "I used it only during the early days and never again". Plus my team. Honestly - and it's only a hypothesis at this point in time I cannot prove, but I meet more and more people whose usage of LLMs seems to be seriously impacting their reading comprehension and writing skills. Do some LLM-detox, I mean this without any kind of disrespect.

> What kind of smug asshole says something like this?

I've also noticed over the years, the folks who get this offended are usually those who are uncertain about their opinion. I simply found your statement cute, that's all. You are obviously in the early stages of using it and I am assuming using it to alleviate your own little, relatively simple tasks in your job which otherwise would have been overburdening for you. It's only human to try and do so, but it hardly describes "productivity" the way you seem to think it does.

[jeremyjh]

> You are obviously in the early stages of using it

I am not. You do not have any knowledge about what I've done or for how long. The arrogance is truly breathtaking. You should work on it.

I've also used GH Copilot since early days, ChatGPT since launch. I did not start using agentic systems (mostly Cursor) until about a year ago, and found them to be of little help in generating code in our large, long-lived and sprawling code base. Something fundamentally changed with Opus 4.5 but I didn't notice it for quite awhile because I had already constrained my usage patterns to what I thought I knew to be their limits.

> little, relatively simple tasks in your job which otherwise would have been overburdening for you

I have done that, and many other things. You do not know anything at all about what I have done with AI. You are projecting your ignorance in a way that makes sense to you, but it is still nothing but ignorance.

If you are actually interested in my recent observations I posted this in another thread recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47897218