Is GitHub's CEO sugarcoating a bad pill for developers?

GitHub's newly announced Copilot Workspace looks like an incredible AI achievement. But what's the real cost to developers?

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke demoed Copilot Workspace in his TED Talk, which was released late last week. (GitHub published a blog post about it at the end of April). This looks like an incredible achievement in AI coding and potentially a world-changing technology - for the better. It could soon allow anyone to bring their vision to reality with an AI coder that can not only write code for small components but also:

1. Write a suggested spec.

2. Convert the spec to a task list

3. Write all the code on that task list

4. Verify the code

5. And more…

Copilot Workspace can take in your entire codebase and propose step-by-step tasks to turn your existing app into your desired vision.