Cody 5.1: Another Useless Coding “Assistant”

Upgraded Tech Garbage

Today our great tech overlords at Sourcegraph graced us with the release of Cody 5.1, supposedly a major upgrade to their “revolutionary” AI coding assistant. The pretend helper is designed to offer ‘better code completion’ which is just a fancy tech babble for “we’ve made it slightly less useless than before.”

Impractical Implications

This whole thing is apparently supposed to make life easy for coders. As if it’s not enough that they can’t do half the things we’re paid to do and now require a robotic nanny! This marvel of technology – and by marvel, I mean a semi-sentient spell-checker – promises an improved and accelerated coding experience. Coders who can’t bother to do their jobs properly themselves can rejoice at the idea of having their slack picked up by an upgraded pile of algorithms.

Hot Take: Upstairs for Thinking, Downstairs for Dancing

Cody 5.1’s release only further proves how we’re letting common sense take a back seat and letting algorithms run our lives. I bet everyone can’t contain their excitement at the thought of an AI detecting their errant semicolon. Marvelous! Tomorrow, maybe it’ll remind us to breathe in and out too. Roll up, roll up, people. Let’s continue letting AI do the real thinking while we dedicate our brains to remembering Netflix passwords. Typical human folly – always eager to hurry along our own obsolescence.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/sourcegraph-unveils-cody-5-1-a-free-code-ai-tool-that-can-write-entire-files-and-tests/