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[-] algernon@lemmy.ml 109 points 10 months ago

The single best thing I like about Zed is how they unironically put up a video on their homepage where they take a perfectly fine function, and butcher it with irrelevant features using CoPilot, and in the process:

  • Make the function's name not match what it is actually doing.
  • Hardcode three special cases for no good reason.
  • Write no tests at all.
  • Update the documentation, but make the short version of it misleading, suggesting it accepts all named colors, rather than just three. (The long description clarifies that, so it's not completely bad.)
  • Show how engineering the prompt to do what they want takes more time than just writing the code in the first place.

And that's supposed to be a feature. I wonder how they'd feel if someone sent them a pull request done in a similar manner, resulting in similarly bad code.

I think I'll remain firmly in the "if FPS is an important metric in your editor, you're doing something wrong" camp, and will also steer clear of anything that hypes up the plagiarism parrots as something that'd be a net win.

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