Thank you Microslop
It’s shit like this that make me want to pursue a career in digging ditches with just a shovel, a bag of sandwiches, a thermos of coffee and the warm sunshine. Fuck the modern world. It jumped the rail a while ago now.
Fuckin’ “A.”
I feel sorry for anyone relying on Copilot.
This is the goal of every ai company. They hate you and just want your money
good
It’s for the best.
Learning how code works is better than getting an LLM to produce convincing looking code without anyone having an understanding of how it works.
LLMs just teach students to paint themselves into a corner without them even realising why bad things keep happening to them.
Right. It’s actually shocking that copilot is allowed at all. The next generation is going to be so fucking stupid.
I agree, but I learn best when I can ask questions a certain way to understand concepts, and as much as people may hate it, it’s good at answering questions like that and people are often nasty when others ask questions they assume to be stupid.
Not that I’m a student.
people are often nasty when others ask questions they assume to be stupid.
It sounds to me like you might want to reevaluate the communities you’re in. This sounds incredibly toxic.
And I agree, for simple questions, it can be helpful. I would caution against overreliance on the answers though. Even the best models available today hallucinate regularly. Always verify answers when they are important.
Also, learning to read documentation directly is a valuable skill to develop. Even if you don’t rely on the documentation directly, reading a lot of it will make it easier to write documentation as well.
Is this even a surprise? Giving away free access to Copilot hemorrhages money and only exists to convert those users into paying customers. It costs them nothing to take away some features from these users.
The only real ways to prevent this are local hosting (which is much more realistic these days) or an explicit contract stating that the features you want will remain for the duration of the contract. The latter is not an option with GH Copilot, as far as I’m aware, and is basically nonexistent with any modern services.
Oh fuck this is terrible! The students are going to have to learn code now
We all know only the smart ones will do that.
So it begins. We are past the unlimited money stage and now the cuts begin to make AI somewhat profitable.
Expect more of that in the coming months.
Good, maybe people will use it less.
Good example of why I don’t rely on technology I don’t control. I want my workflow to be future-proof and have a predictable cost.
Yes, when anyone proposes building our tools on top of these services I ask “what will happen to this when they start charging what it really costs to run these models?”
In general I agree with you, but llms are the one exception where it’s not practical and not cost effective to run them locally. If you want to use them, the better option is by far to pay someone for the service.
That’s because now is the phase where they let you try the good stuff cheaper to hook you up.
That’s true, but there are also massive economies of scale when you can afford the big Nvidia gpus and share them among many people.
Then second best option is an inference provider for open weight models, so at least if they raise the price or stop offering it you can get it from someone else or eventually upgrade to self hosting.
I agree. I use openrouter myself.
Same process as used by drug dealers: first you can try for free, you get addict, then you have to pay.
And both drug dealers and software companies refer to their clients as users.
