Because they don't work? I've been harsh on these LLM models because every time I have interacted with them, they've been a giant waste of time. I've spent hours with them, and it just goes nowhere, and there's a huge amount of noise and misinformation.
I recently had another round where I tried to put aside my existing thoughts and perhaps biases and tried a trial of Copilot for a couple of days, using it all day doing tasks. Nearly every single piece of code it gave me was broken, and I was using Python. I was trying to use it for a popular Python library whose documentation was a bit terse. It was producing code from the various versions of the library's API, and nothing it gave me compiled. We ended up just going in circles, where it had no idea what to do. I was asking something as simple as "here's a YAML file, write me Python code to read it in" (of course in more detail and simple steps). It couldn't do it. I eventually gave up and just read the documentation and used StackOverflow.
About the only thing I have been able to use it for so far with relatively consistent success is to write boilerplate code. But even then, it feels like I'm using more time than just doing it myself.
And that happens a lot with this stuff. I initially got very excited about Copilot because I thought, shit I was wrong about all this, this is useful. But after that wore off, I saw it for what it is. It's just throwing a bunch of statistically correlated things at me. It doesn't understand anything, and because of that, it gets in the way.
I recently had another round where I tried to put aside my existing thoughts and perhaps biases and tried a trial of Copilot for a couple of days, using it all day doing tasks. Nearly every single piece of code it gave me was broken, and I was using Python. I was trying to use it for a popular Python library whose documentation was a bit terse. It was producing code from the various versions of the library's API, and nothing it gave me compiled. We ended up just going in circles, where it had no idea what to do. I was asking something as simple as "here's a YAML file, write me Python code to read it in" (of course in more detail and simple steps). It couldn't do it. I eventually gave up and just read the documentation and used StackOverflow.
About the only thing I have been able to use it for so far with relatively consistent success is to write boilerplate code. But even then, it feels like I'm using more time than just doing it myself.
And that happens a lot with this stuff. I initially got very excited about Copilot because I thought, shit I was wrong about all this, this is useful. But after that wore off, I saw it for what it is. It's just throwing a bunch of statistically correlated things at me. It doesn't understand anything, and because of that, it gets in the way.