> I will personally never use Copilot, or any other AI code generation tool, for the simple reason that I enjoy writing code.
I had an XML file format, I needed it converted to JSON. I haven't parsed XML in over a decade, and I didn't want to relearn. I also didn't want to match up XML fields to JSON fields. Both file formats had well defined schemas available, but were also common enough that most major LLMs were trained on them.
I just asked Claude to write a program to convert from one file format to another.
There is no joy in that task. Doing it myself would have been the very definition of a useless chore.
I had an XML file format, I needed it converted to JSON. I haven't parsed XML in over a decade, and I didn't want to relearn. I also didn't want to match up XML fields to JSON fields. Both file formats had well defined schemas available, but were also common enough that most major LLMs were trained on them.
I just asked Claude to write a program to convert from one file format to another.
There is no joy in that task. Doing it myself would have been the very definition of a useless chore.