Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap. The initiative, created in partnership with Microsoft's GitHub, is expected to train an additional 1,000 coders this year and 2,000 in 2026. It comes from …
"Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap."
If 'AI' is so great, why do people need training in how to use it? Nuances == Hallucinations (Or Lies as they're better known)?
"The power of these tools is that it makes you a superhuman developer and it's supposed to make your job easier, but you don't actually see a lot of developers going and embracing this," said Chang, "because there's this shock and denial that happens with change."
The resistance to change is due to marketing bullshit about how forcing an hallucinating slop generator into your workflow is somehow going to make you "superhuman".
"The resistance to change is due to marketing bullshit about how forcing an hallucinating slop generator into your workflow is somehow going to make you "superhuman"."
The resistance to change is due to capable developers generally not buying the marketing bullshit, seeing through the hand-wavy hard-sell, and being well-aware of the paucity of evidence for any real benefit.
