{"id":4408,"date":"2025-05-24T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T08:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T08:45:49","slug":"the-copilot-delusion-creates-unsustainable-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/the-copilot-delusion-creates-unsustainable-software\/","title":{"rendered":"the copilot delusion creates unsustainable software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"activitypub-reply-block wp-block-activitypub-reply\" aria-label=\"Reply\" data-in-reply-to=\"https:\/\/digitalcourage.social\/@tante@tldr.nettime.org\/114557024839417269\"> <div class=\"activitypub-embed u-in-reply-to h-cite\"> <div class=\"activitypub-embed-header p-author h-card\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/tldr.nettime.org\/system_nettime\/accounts\/avatars\/109\/459\/979\/294\/992\/727\/original\/83523d91811e5207.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <div class=\"activitypub-embed-header-text\"> <h2 class=\"p-name\">tante<\/h2> <a href=\"https:\/\/tldr.nettime.org\/users\/tante\" class=\"ap-account u-url\">@tante@tldr.nettime.org<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"activitypub-embed-content\"> <div class=\"ap-subtitle p-summary e-content\"><p>Loving this: &quot;The Copilot Delusion&quot;<\/p><p>Quotes:<br \/>&quot;Copilot isn\u2019t that. It\u2019s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, &quot;Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it&#039;s good code. Let\u2019s deploy it.&quot; Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won\u2019t come down.&quot;<\/p><p>&quot;The problem isn\u2019t just laziness. It\u2019s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you\u2019re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays.&quot;<\/p><p>&quot;At that point, you\u2019re not working with a copilot. You\u2019re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph.&quot;<\/p><p>&quot;But even if you&#039;re just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity.&quot;<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/deplet.ing\/the-copilot-delusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"invisible\">https:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"ellipsis\">deplet.ing\/the-copilot-delusio<\/span><span class=\"invisible\">n\/<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"activitypub-embed-meta\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/tldr.nettime.org\/users\/tante\/statuses\/114557024701720252\" class=\"ap-stat ap-date dt-published u-in-reply-to\">2025-05-23, 11:57<\/a> <span class=\"ap-stat\"> <strong>442<\/strong> boosts <\/span> <span class=\"ap-stat\"> <strong>558<\/strong> favorites <\/span> <\/div> <\/div> <style>\/** * ActivityPub embed styles. *\/ .activitypub-embed { background: #fff; border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; border-radius: 12px; padding: 0; max-width: 100%; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } .activitypub-reply-block .activitypub-embed { margin: 1em 0; } .activitypub-embed-header { padding: 15px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px; } .activitypub-embed-header img { width: 48px; height: 48px; border-radius: 50%; } .activitypub-embed-header-text { flex-grow: 1; } .activitypub-embed-header-text h2 { color: #000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .activitypub-embed-header-text .ap-account { color: #687684; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; } .activitypub-embed-content { padding: 0 15px 15px; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-title { font-size: 23px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0; color: #000; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-subtitle { font-size: 15px; color: #000; margin: 0 0 15px; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; border-radius: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; gap: 2px; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; grid-template-rows: 1fr 1fr; margin: 1em 0 0; min-height: 64px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 100%; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview img { border: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 100%; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview video, .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview audio { max-width: 100%; display: block; grid-column: 1 \/ span 2; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview audio { width: 100%; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview.layout-1 { grid-template-columns: 1fr; grid-template-rows: 1fr; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview.layout-2 { aspect-ratio: auto; grid-template-rows: 1fr; height: auto; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview.layout-3 > img:first-child { grid-row: span 2; } .activitypub-embed-content .ap-preview-text { padding: 15px; } .activitypub-embed-meta { padding: 15px; border-top: 1px solid #e6e6e6; color: #687684; font-size: 13px; display: flex; gap: 15px; } .activitypub-embed-meta .ap-stat { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 5px; } @media only screen and (max-width: 399px) { .activitypub-embed-meta span.ap-stat { display: none !important; } } .activitypub-embed-meta a.ap-stat { color: inherit; text-decoration: none; } .activitypub-embed-meta strong { font-weight: 600; color: #000; } .activitypub-embed-meta .ap-stat-label { color: #687684; } <\/style><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/deplet.ing\/the-copilot-delusion\">The copilot delusion<\/a>&#8221; is about the necessity of using your brain when programming. Stop wasting energy with shitty code. Todays temptation is to only rely on #AI assistants like GitHub CoPilot, who firmly copy the first answer from StackOverflow, believing it is the best for you. A get code that is barely working which may fix the ticket in this sprint while enshittificating the codebase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https:\/\/tldr.nettime.org\/@tante\">@tante<\/a> and <a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bobschi\">@bobschi<\/a> &#8211; thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https:\/\/sigmoid.social\/@gromgull\">@gromgull<\/a> &#8211; this article contains language and message you will probably like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Most engineers already write bloated, abstracted, glacial code that burns CPU cycles like a California wildfire. Clean code? Ha! You\u2019re writing for other programmers\u2019 academic circlejerk, not the hardware. You\u2019ve forgotten that the machine matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Eventually, you\u2019re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays. Milliseconds at a time, seconds at a time, each click a tax on your apathy. 50 million users have an extra 3 seconds of unnecessary lag in a day because you wanted to hit tab rather than write code?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;[AI Code Assistant] is shouting over your shoulder, &#8220;Let me code that bit real quick, I saw it in a Slashdot comment!&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read here: <\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/deplet.ing\/the-copilot-delusion\">https:\/\/deplet.ing\/the-copilot-delusion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I add my conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The result are the <strong>shitty apps<\/strong> we use every day in 2025. Apps demand the latest flagship smartphone because each app grabs 1000MB RAM, 8 CPU cores, and each installs the same 250MB dependencies \u2014 to achieve the same features that engineers were squeezing out of 50MB RAM, 1 CPU core, and 1MB of linking to platform-specific operating system call header libs on the 2008 iPhone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI enterpreneurs lure us on a trajectory leading to a year 2030 when we will <strong>waste gigawatts of electricity<\/strong> for AIs writing shitty code that will waste gigawatts of CPU when running &#8211; contradicting the UN sustainability goal of reducing CO2 emissions, reducing energy use, switching to renewable energy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each year we have to invest into <strong>new hardware<\/strong>, the latest supercomputer smartphone or laptop, to be able to run a simple webbrowser and check the weather. Software investors decided to make <strong>their profits <\/strong>by saving on developers. The <strong>planned obsolescence <\/strong>of hardware is <strong>our collective loss <\/strong>leading to our hardware turning into trash and landfill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We need pull requests that make a codebase faster and simpler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using limited energy and CPU cycles wisely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making todays hardware work for us for another decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By understanding how minimal software can actually be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/eclipse-rdf4j\/rdf4j\/blob\/main\/core\/sail\/lucene-api\/src\/main\/java\/org\/eclipse\/rdf4j\/sail\/lucene\/LuceneSail.java\">LuceneSail.java<\/a>,  a clever piece of code I and others hacked after years of learning.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The copilot delusion&#8221; is about the necessity of using your brain when programming. Stop wasting energy with shitty code. 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