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Terrible article. 90% fluffy rant. 10% actual points.
Obviously GitHub is biased here, but anyone that has actually used Copilot knows it is useful. It's not going to write your whole program for you but it clearly improves productivity by a small amount (which makes it a no-brainer commercially).
For some reason the author clearly needs Copilot to be useless. I'm not sure why.
While the author does not like Copilot or Ai tools for this task, the entire article is not about Copilot itself. The author makes points and points out why the statistics and article from Github/Microsoft is nonsense and misleading at best, or even straight up lies at worst. Its not just that Github is biased here, hey first straight up lie with the statistics and why the brought up points of Github makes no sense or are misleading. The author of this article did actually a good job of breaking it down and explains each point.
There is no such thing as "no-brainer commercially" when Ai is involved. If you turn off your brain because you are using Ai, then you are using Ai wrongly. And soon you will find yourself in trouble, especially if its commercially used.
A commercial no-brainer means it makes such financial sense that even someone with no brain would make the same decision.
For $100/year subscription, it has to save something like 2 hours of dev time per a year for it to make financial sense.
It doesn't mean that anyone gets to switch off their brain