Aside: am I the only one here that is still writing code by hand and not using AI to autogenerate it?
Because it seems over the past couple years on HN everybody is making great use of Copilot and constantly talking about it, while honestly scaffolding boilerplate is the least of my problems, while thinking, designing and abstracting novel ideas into code is the hard part where AI would fall short and just waste my time.
I still do not get if I'm behind the times or just experienced enough (I've been programming for two decades) that I don't feel the need to use Copilot. It's a bit disconcerting because I feel I need to get out of pure programming work ASAP as everybody else is competing with me with Copilot and GPT and I am feeling an existential risk to my craft and livelihood.
Because it seems over the past couple years on HN everybody is making great use of Copilot and constantly talking about it, while honestly scaffolding boilerplate is the least of my problems, while thinking, designing and abstracting novel ideas into code is the hard part where AI would fall short and just waste my time.
I still do not get if I'm behind the times or just experienced enough (I've been programming for two decades) that I don't feel the need to use Copilot. It's a bit disconcerting because I feel I need to get out of pure programming work ASAP as everybody else is competing with me with Copilot and GPT and I am feeling an existential risk to my craft and livelihood.