Are tools like CoPilot going to make bad developers?

[AstonJ]

I think you make some valid points. To me it’s both worrying and exciting, ultimately, at some point there won’t be a need to code - we’ll just tell the computer what we want and it will do it. Probably quicker and more efficiently too

There are lots of concerns around CoPilot tho, here’s one that cropped up today:

GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

Maybe you don’t mind if GitHub Copi­lot used your open-source code with­out ask­ing. But how will you feel if Copi­lot erases your open-source com­mu­nity? Hello. This is Matthew Butterick. I’m a writer, designer, pro­gram­mer, and law­yer. I’ve writ­ten two books on typog­ra­phy—Prac­ti­cal Typog­ra­phy and Typog­ra­phy for Lawyers—and designed the fonts in the MB Type library, includ­ing Equity, Con­course, and Trip­li­cate. As a pro­gram­mer, I’ve been pro­fes­sion­ally involved with op…