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What fiasco? Copilot is amazing. I can't imagine coding without it ever again. If you think it's just for sorting algorithms and schoolbook examples you clearly haven't realized the scope of it. It helps me a lot in the most unexpected situations and constantly still surprises me even though I've used it since day 1.

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I actually pay for Copilot, because it is useful, but during the hype phase you had people claiming that it could replace programmers entirely. That is patently not true.

I mean, yeah, but that's no different than people claiming DALL-E will replace artists, or GPT-3 will replace authors, or calculators will replace mathematicians, or the printing press will replace handwriting, etc. Whenever there's new tech, there are people who think it will replace every activity that it can perform, and that's almost never the case. Doesn't take away from the actual capabilities of the tech, though.

Maybe not in its current incarnation but if things keep moving at this pace I wouldn't be surprised if it actually happened. When internet went down I was staring at the screen, subconsciously waiting for something to autocomplete. Only then did I realize how much I actually rely on Copilot, to the point where it's part of my backbone. I felt handicapped and couldn't understand why until I saw the Wifi symbol.

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