> "How much repetitive and empty of creativity most programming tasks are."<p>I've used Copilot for the past couple of weeks and haven't found this to be the case.<p>Most of the time Copilot doesn't really understand what I'm doing or isn't useful because I'm doing exploratory programming. For the trivial stuff, I've found that it's easier to write it myself because then I don't have to correct what an AI is thinking so it fits into the project or compiles.<p>I'm a big fan of Copilot. I think the outrage is overblown. But it hasn't been useful enough to prove that most programming is "devoid of creativity and repetitive".<p>> "Every task Copilot can do for you is a task that should NOT be part of modern programming, and a signal that our industry is broken and that programmers are the new blue collars."<p>I really don't get this point. The point of programming and explicitness is control over what gets run.<p>Are you sick of writing API calls to a weather service? Use no-code or a library. Are you sick of writing an algorithm for X? Find a library for it, there's likely tons, and if there isn't, that's creative work for ya. Dislike setting up a React project? Use a boilerplate. Sick of plumbing things together? Try no-code.<p>Feeling like nothing you're making is creative? Go write your own OS or something.<p>This thread reeks of the whole elitist "programming used to be real work back then" attitude.
Pretty bad take. CoPilot is not sufficient to complete any realistically scoped task. I do not know how you go from CoPilot can successfully guess some snippets of code you might want to use to "programming is now blue collar work"