In places where you pay upfront at the register and wait for your order, it almost feels like blackmail. Tipping happens at the time of placing the order. Not saying everyone does this but can't be sure that nothing fishy happens if someone tips low/min.
Don't know how big of a home you have but I've been pitched mesh wifi but I realized I didn't really need it (~3k sqft home). My ~$150 Netgear router works perfectly fine. My recommendation is to see if a regular router works for you before you invest in mesh.
My guess is that it's a very different (and difficult) problem to generalize that way. Interpreting intent and taking action are different aspects. Someone needs to write code to call a vendor's API to execute those actions and that's a super specialized action. Next step is probably instruct a CoPilot-like tool to do it.
> We will then begin the hybrid pilot in full on May 23, with people coming to the office three days a week — on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday — and working flexibly on Wednesday and Friday if you wish.
Copilot also optimizes for speed to a degree. It's akin to advanced auto complete. IntelliJ auto-completion is great. As much as it pains to say this, I don't think I will be as effective writing Java in Vim as much as I am with IntelliJ. The key differentiator is the auto complete speed. Copilot I feel is just auto complete on steroids. It may not be perfect yet, but there is definitely a problem it solves.
Have you used it? My experience was quite atrocious. Copilot is not auto complete. It’s nonsense. I attempted to use it continuously for three weeks. I tried because I know someone who built it and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
It never prompted me with any code that was useful. It only ever slowed me down and caused me frustration. It’s nothing like Intellisense. It’s just trash.
I pretty much use it every day at this point and I notice when it is disabled.
> It’s just trash
I have a hard time relating to this kind of experience considering how useful it has been for me. What language are you writing in btw? When I use it for OCaml it's not that useful, perhaps because there isn't as much OCaml code to learn from :D
Could you cite an actual specific example? I have a difficult time believing what you are asserting that it provided absolutely no value at any point - it just sounds like a baseless ad hominem attack.
I find that it's fantastic for typescript and JavaScript allowing me to flesh out the completion of basic data object containers class definitions etc. extremely quickly.
If I don't remember the exact parameters that you have to pass into a certain NPM packages methods it will usually auto prompt me and help me complete it without me having to context switch to a browser and look it up.
TLDR; the subtleness of its wrongness destroys my ability to follow my train of thought. I always had to take myself out of my train of thought and evaluate the correctness of the suggestion instead of just writing.
For simple things, intellisense, autocomplete and snippets are far more effective.
For anything more complex, I already know what I want to write.
When I'm writing Angular code, it often fills in the correct boilerplate code, and is especially helpful when writing unit tests. I'm also quite surprised when it autocomplete various filter functions.
It isn't perfect, but it's been helpful filling in the mundane, simple stuff.
Sorry to tell you, but if you’re constantly, or even regularly, writing this much boilerplate code, then you probably need to change how you write code. Maybe try a different framework.
I pair program with a guy who completely refuses to use the keyboard unless there is no other option. He uses the mouse to cut/copy/paste everything possible. He is not handicapped. It is frustrating for me to pair program with him because of that.
He will spend an extra 3-5 seconds using his mouse in order to avoid typing.
The only drawback is....constraints. Autocomplete constrains suggestions to those that are valid or at least valid-adjacent (like it'll use something but auto-import it to make it valid, etc). Copilot fails miserably here and I don't yet see it improving anytime soon. Maybe it will, and if it does, it'll be great. But I won't hold my breath for it.
AWS Amplify[1] actually has neat tooling for serverless projects and lets to deal with just the core of your product and worry less about infra. Admittedly, it helps if you know the underlying connections but in my experience that's true with rails too. Building a blog with rails isn't the same as a more complex product.
If you are using gmail, you are already giving all of that to google. Google tracks all your purchases. Not trying to contradict your point but just saying that it happens irrespective of whether you use Amazon or not
