> terrible for competence, mastery or originality!
Would you say the same for finding a solution to your problem in StackOverflow? My argument is that you will always learn from adapting to your situation. And on copilot I think it's the same thing, but now you are finding your solution way faster.
It's not like in the videos example case where you are passively watching something. No, you read the suggested code, execute your code, look for bugs, test it etc. Then you move on to the next step of your coding task or whatever.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your feedback and I love your suggestions! I'm super optimistic that we are not far away from having that “reviewer friend” just being an AI. It will do exactly what that friend is supposed to: red-ink the hell out of your paper.
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the offer. Will be reaching out for sure! I just posted in one of the above threads my original input (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034355) -- I'd love to have your review there!
Sure, thanks for the interest. Here's the original:
"As I advance my career, I find my writing skills horrible. I started feeling the pain even more as an aspiring staff engineer.
Now I need to write way more emails, communicate more, connect teams, engage with higher level managers, influence people, play politics etc.
Since feeling this pain, I tried a few apps, and my last one was Grammarly. I've found their suggestions to be very minor. I was looking for a solution that can check entire message correctness, clearity and suggest ways to improve the overall structure.
Searching for this problem, I found a few similar posts here and it seems like it is a shared concern, especially for the non native speakers like me. Which brought me to this experiment of writing an app powered by AI that can correct my grammar and improve suggestions.
What do you all think? Is it a valid idea? Would you pay to have access to this tool? Please give me your feedback and let’s debate. Don't go easy on me, critics are all I'm asking."
Curious to hear your feedback about the result from the above original input. AI response gave me pretty much the final version of my post, I think I just inserted this: "Aaand… I’m here to validate it!" and the footprint "Note:". And by the last sentence do you mean the note? (Could you please state how a native speaker would write it?)
Thank you for the support! I really appreciate it!
OTOH, I understand the criticism too. Maybe I was not clear in my message, but of course the idea is not replace 100% of a person's writing with a generated AI blurb.
But more like an assistant, where the user can see more ways that the message can be expressed more fluidly and adapt as needed. And BIG YES, hopefully, by using the app, seeing suggestions repeatedly, practicing more, learning more and becoming a better writer in the process!
Agreed with the first part, but I don't think the comparison makes sense. I think that focusing on your editor config allows you to be faster, more agile, hence allowing to write more code, review more code, fix more bugs, yadda yadda. Outcome = becoming a better coder!
People using GitHub Copilot are learning how to code while they review and tweak the AI suggestions. As an outcome, they are becoming better coders in the process.