Definitely more helpful. But I would preface that with proper context building.

It isn’t enough (generally) to just tell it to do the thing. It is far better to to tell it to do a thing, and how, and provide rules, and provide examples, and provide the company’s best practices.

And I realize it takes a bit to get there, but I’m at a point that with enough context provisions, I can generate 10+ files of code for a net new feature that is 99%+ how I would do it in sub 5 minutes.

Do I tell Product that I still need another week? Absolutely.

Context is king.

It goes through two levels of review, we do not accept slop.

Fuck you now I’m actually curious

Anecdotal data point, my cat hates catnip. Spray it? He flips shit and runs. Drop some flakes? He approaches it slowly and then just walks away. Toys? Won’t touch them.

But he’ll eat the shit out of Churu

Same for greenies for me. Used to love them, now sees them and nopes out of the room.

Tell me more?

My cat refuses almost all wet food, but multiple vet demands say we need to provide more moisture. Churu is mostly the only thing we’ve found. The ingredients seem… relatively okay (versus most).

Absolutely.

…but to be fair I’d take almost anyone’s word over a Republican’s.

To the surprise of nobody.

It’s crazy. They literally treat a lack of knowledge like a badge of honor. They genuinely believe they deserve a gold star for proactively avoiding knowing shit. It’s real. It’s wild.

Crap you just reminded me I need to stock up on shotgun ammo

I don’t have much but happy to send you some bulk rice and beans if it helps? I realize this sounds worse than I mean, but genuinely trying to help.

I’m not as intelligent as you, but thank you for this because it increases my appreciation so much more

I’m confused why 2029 would be any better?

but muh economyz!

…wow, TIL.

Cry more. Half the problem is Copilot is anecdotally worse than just running a model locally myself. It easily ranks at or near the bottom for everything IME.

The other half is Microsoft shoving it everywhere including fucking Notepad.

WHAT.

I will literally relocate my cat from carpet to hard floor and he will run back before resuming his barfing.

I feel like you must be prompting it poorly or using ChatGPT / Copilot?

I’d say in my day to day, AI tooling successfully tackles 90% of my software engineering jobs and with proper context and promoting the output is pretty stellar.

lol

Kill the rich.