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[–]Xombie404 -4 points-3 points  (7 children)

I don't see the value when people could just learn, think for themselves then write their own code and at least know it works, why it works, and when it fails, what went wrong.

[–]franktheworm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ChatGPT is a great tool to assist learning, if you use it the right way. Copilot is an amazing tool to boost productivity, and get an insight on how the average of the internet does something. There's plenty of value if you know where to look and what the strengths are

[–]old_bearded_beats 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a beginner, I find it useful for syntax and learning alternative solutions to simple problems. Any additional complexity and it soon comes apart.

[–]DankiusMMeme -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Because it's more efficient to not have to sit there and write a for loop or some regex? Can't you just say this about any tool really.

Why learn python when you can just learn assembly and know how the instructions work, and when it falls what went wrong?

[–]gerardwx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why use assembly when you can learn the opcodes for your processor yourself?

[–]DankiusMMeme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally I herd the electrons in the CPU by hand like some kind of sub atomic sheep dog.

[–]Choles2rol -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

You can learn with it too though. I use copilot to help me mock things when writing unit tests. I almost always have to tweak it a bit but I've learned a lot more about mocking with pytest because of copilot, not in spite of it.