I’ve started using it as an interactive rubber duck. When I’ve got a problem, I explain it to the AI, after which it gives a response that I ignore because after explaining it, I figured it out myself.
AI has been very helpful for finding my way around Azure deploy problems, though. And other complex configuration issues (I was missing a certificate to use az login). I fixed problems I probably couldn’t have solved without it.
But I’ve lost a lot of time trying to get it to solve complex coding problems. It makes a heroic effort trying to combine aspects of known patterns and algorithms into something resembling a solution, and it can “reason” about how it should work, but it doesn’t really understand what it’s doing.
I use colleagues or people on Discord for this. I get the solution immediately after asking AND those that saw me, or heard me, ask now think I’m an idiot. It’s my neurodivergent kink!
Which is strange, because Azure’s documentation is complete dogshit.
We were trying to solve something at work (send SMTP messages using OAuth authentication, not rocket science) and Azure’s own chatbot kept on making up non-existent server commands, rest endpoints that don’t exist, and phantom permissions that needed to be added to the account.
Seriously; fuck Azure, fuck Copilot. Made a task that should have taken hours, take weeks.
I’ve started using it as an interactive rubber duck. When I’ve got a problem, I explain it to the AI, after which it gives a response that I ignore because after explaining it, I figured it out myself.
AI has been very helpful for finding my way around Azure deploy problems, though. And other complex configuration issues (I was missing a certificate to use
az login). I fixed problems I probably couldn’t have solved without it.But I’ve lost a lot of time trying to get it to solve complex coding problems. It makes a heroic effort trying to combine aspects of known patterns and algorithms into something resembling a solution, and it can “reason” about how it should work, but it doesn’t really understand what it’s doing.
I use colleagues or people on Discord for this. I get the solution immediately after asking AND those that saw me, or heard me, ask now think I’m an idiot. It’s my neurodivergent kink!
Which is strange, because Azure’s documentation is complete dogshit.
We were trying to solve something at work (send SMTP messages using OAuth authentication, not rocket science) and Azure’s own chatbot kept on making up non-existent server commands, rest endpoints that don’t exist, and phantom permissions that needed to be added to the account.
Seriously; fuck Azure, fuck Copilot. Made a task that should have taken hours, take weeks.