No amount of sub-par developers cheering for AI to overtake them will be enough to make me install Copilot or any glorified autocomplete. None of that would be needed anyway if people documented and tested their shit anyway.

No offense but imo this is stubborn anti-progress thinking.

As you said, you can see it as another tool which does autocomplete on steroids and other stuff. But still a tool. It will not overtake you. Just ignore the idiots who believe that.

Also, even if it was true that this AI will replace us, you wouldn‘t be able to prevent this by boycotting it.

Yesterday convinced a friend to finally try codeium, he had only failures with other AI tools and yes! He loved it. I'm also sure that your comment doesn't age well. The codeium autocomplete is so extremely beneficial. It doesn't do magic, I know exactly what and when I will autocomplete. It's really a buddy, teamwork. Saying no to it is like saying no to autocompletion. Since I know almost know every thing from head, I would say that I use the AI way more. Function call? It knows exactly what parameters you wanted to give it. One tab - done, without typos or whatever. A value mapping? Type the first and the other twelve are done by a single tab. It also reminds you many times if you forget smth. For C, it will suggesting freeing when it's a good idea. I've seen multiple guys like your saying this stuff but what do you want to prove to yourself?

Anyway, if you do want to try in the future, take the right tool: codeium. It's free, never hit a limit.

@Lensflare this is not a boycott. This is me preventing myself from being instupidified by an instrument that does the thinking for me.

I allow myself some AI if the time calls for it -most of the times, it's when I don't even know the name of what I should be searching for-.

@IHateForALiving I get your concern, but I wouldn’t say that it does the thinking for me. Maybe it depends on the skill level.
I see how it could be bad for newbies as they just apply the autosuggestions without learning anything themselves.
But once you are on the level where you know what you are doing, it‘s just a tool to speed up your work.

@Lensflare if only that tool was not extremely privacy intrusive and leaking data all over the place

@iiii there are AI code assistents which run locally or which you can host yourself

@Lensflare sure, but are they better than a typical "intellisense" in terms of assisting in writing the code you know how to write and what to write?

@iiii I tried two and for both the answer is yes

@Lensflare how are they better? i mean use cases

@iiii it doesn’t just autocomplete the fitting function name but the complete call with concrete parameter values based on the context around that line of code.

It can also "autocomplete" function bodies/implementations, which the traditional autocomplete can't.
You can help it by providing a comment what this function should do in natural language.
This is what I was skeptical about myself for a long time because it absolutely looks like braindead development where the AI codes for you, but it‘s not.
It‘s just a suggestion by the AI that you always need to check for if it‘s really what you want, because it often gets it wrong. And you need to guide the AI to produce what you want. This is also something that you need to learn and get used to. It’s a tool.

@IHateForALiving it just copies stuff you wrote before

@Lensflare the main concern is it's the tool that is often wrong. wouldn't it be simpler to just not use it rather than babysit it every time?

@iiii in practice, no.
It’s still easier and faster to check if it‘s what you want than to write it yourself.