🔗 The Copilot Delusion
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- Author: Jj, May 22
- Category: article
- URL: deplet.ing/the-copil…
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It doesn’t point you to the holy scrolls where veterans debate exception guarantees like theologians dissecting scripture. But if you already know what you want and just need the incantation, it’s a better, quicker scribe than most human interns
“But I just use AI for boilerplate!” you whimper, clutching your Co-Pilot subscription. Listen to yourself. If you’re writing the same boilerplate every day like some industrial-age cog monkey, automate it yourself. Write a library. Invent a macro. Reclaim some dignity. If AI’s doing your “boring parts”, what exactly is left for you to do? Fidget with sliders? Paint by numbers while the inference works it’s magic?
When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.
The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation.