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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Getting pretty tired of new coworker spruiking copilot all the time, please send me your sympathy and energy so I can weather this trial

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You have my sympathy! Is the worst part that you have to review the slop or its general presence at all?

Asking because at my workplace it will be allowed soon, and some coworkers are unfortunately looking forward to it, and I'm horrified, especially by the thought of having to do code review then...

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago

It’s more the latter. I can’t really stop anyone from using it, and playing the game of “can you tell if this snippet of code was LLMed” is a fools errand, so I have to choose to ignore that part of it. Testing de-risks bad code, but there is never enough testing… well, there’s only so much I can do within my pay grade.

I’ve since asked this person to stop talking about their copilot usage, so this issue has been resolved, for now.

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