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  • Someone excitedly demonstrated to me how easy it is to code with copilot. They generated a bunch of code easily. And then proceeded to debug subtle bugs for longer than it would have taken to write it yourself in the first place.

    And in the end they were still left with badly structured and maintainable code.

    LLMs will do exactly what Stackoverflow has done, but more efficiently: allow profileration of bad/outdated solutions to problems, and application of those with no real understanding.

    More garbage code and more work for the few people who continue to actually read manuals and understand what they are doing.













  • Passwords will be brute forced if it can be done offline.

    Private SSH keys should never leave a machine. If a key gets compromised without you knowing, in worst case you will revoke the access it has once the machine’s lifespan is over. If you copy around one key, it may get compromised on any of the systems, and you will never revoke the access it has.

    And you may not want to give all systems the same access everywhere. With one key per machine, you can have more granularity for access.