Subj : Re: Chat Bots (Was: Hub 500)
To   : Mortar M.
From : digimaus
Date : Wed Jun 24 2026 17:50:07

-=> Mortar M. wrote to digimaus <=-

 MM> What would be more beneficial to thee user is instead of an LLM /doing/
 MM> the work, it shows you how /you/ could do it.  The "teach a man to
 MM> fish" approach.

Copilot does just that, every time.  It shows its logic used to arrive at the
conclusion, including pseudo-code to explain the flow of the code.  It also
will present several possible ways of accomplishing what you want to do and it
will explain which option it thinks is best in your particular use case, but
it will do what you ask it to.

I readily admit to using Copilot for some things that are above my skill
level, however, I do learn from there and move on.  It really saves time rom
hunting down answers on my own on the Web, especially when it comes to things
BBS programming.

Does it replace skill?  No.  The AI makes mistakes but generally
figure out how to fix them to I tell the AI it needs to correct a mistake
(usually by telling it that its code will not compile and giving it the
compiler error code).

-- Sean
 

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