My Copilot and Me …
Interesting thing is that through this week of long working hours, GitHub Copilot has been keeping me company, so never felt alone. I am also figuring out how to have conversations, and get better outcomes from those. Also, I now am in a much better state to know where I should ask it to execute vs those places where I need to just jump in ( and there are more of these than the former ). More importantly, my workflow is incremental to my “code by hand” and “search on DuckDuckGo” flows. So, it does NOT overwhelm me. And I grow with it. I have still not introduced this to the Telosa team and my other mentees ( Vedant Gune Parth Bhuva ). If I see any different response from them, I will let you know.
On the flip side of the experience, I am asking the question “What should my interns be learning ?”, and “How far can they rely on these ?”.
I am also thinking: “Now that I can work for endless hours without talking to any human, and my decades of passionate coding experience, I am probably one of those who can build a single person SaaS company”. No, I am not going to do that. I am also passionate about sharing my knowledge, and helping mentees grow, so will always work with them.
I read that Clause Code and Cursor are much better than Copilot. I may try using them at some point. But that is not today.
Any team wants me to help them get started with AI using the “Keep It Stupid Simple” and “One Change at a time” philosophy, reach out.
I will be happy to do free sessions for those that don’t make money out of it, and paid ones for those who do.
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