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The clue is the name of the tools: "co-pilot".

Assistants that work best in the hands of someone who already knows what they're doing, removing tedium and providing an additional layer of quality assurance.

Pilot's still needed to get the plane in the air.

But even if the output from these tools is perfect, coding isn't only (or even mainly) about writing code, it's about building complex systems and finding workable solutions through problems that sometimes look like cul de sacs.

Once your codebase reaches a few thousand lines, LLMs struggle seeing the big picture and begin introducing one new problem for every one that they solve.

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