The fastai blog is linked in my post (it’s the url for “outdated”) since I tried some of the prompts from his blog (especially the first one when reading a file) and ended up with different results. It’s worth mentioning that he only talks about Copilot, not Codex, the latter being supposedly from a more advanced model.
On the amount of code generated, you could make the similar argument for Stack Overflow. If I were a SO skeptic I would say “back in my day people used to read manuals and use the right options for functions, now that they just copy-paste many paragraphs of code”. Codex is just SO on steroids, it’s the engineers’ responsibility to refactor, although I agree having auto-complete doesn’t help solve bad habits.
The fastai blog is linked in my post (it’s the url for “outdated”) since I tried some of the prompts from his blog (especially the first one when reading a file) and ended up with different results. It’s worth mentioning that he only talks about Copilot, not Codex, the latter being supposedly from a more advanced model.
On the amount of code generated, you could make the similar argument for Stack Overflow. If I were a SO skeptic I would say “back in my day people used to read manuals and use the right options for functions, now that they just copy-paste many paragraphs of code”. Codex is just SO on steroids, it’s the engineers’ responsibility to refactor, although I agree having auto-complete doesn’t help solve bad habits.