I tutored college students who were taking a computer programming course. A few of them didn’t understand that computers are not sentient. More than one person used comments in their Pascal programs to put detailed explanations such as, “Now I need you to put these letters on the screen.” I asked one of them what the deal was with those comments. The reply: “How else is the computer going to understand what I want it to do?” Apparently they would assume that since they couldn’t make sense of Pascal, neither could the computer.
There’s been a phase change with the release of copilot, where this suddenly appears to work—at least, for tasks like putting letters on the screen or assembling cookie recipes. “Waiter, there’s a ghost in my machine!”
There’s been a phase change with the release of copilot, where this suddenly appears to work—at least, for tasks like putting letters on the screen or assembling cookie recipes. “Waiter, there’s a ghost in my machine!”