"This isn’t about tools or productivity or acceleration. It’s about the illusion of progress. Because if that programmer-if that thing, that CREATURE-walked into your stand-up in human form, typing half-correct garbage into your codebase while ignoring your architecture and disappearing during cleanup, you’d fire them before they could say "no blockers".
But slap Microsoft's marketing label on it and plug it into the IDE of every developer in the org? Now that’s innovation. Science. Progress. Profit.
A real copilot, on a commercial airline? They know the plane. The systems. They’ve done the simulations. They go through recertification. When they speak, it’s to enhance the pilot... Not to shotgun random advice into the cockpit and eject themselves mid-flight.
Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down.
If you let that ghost fly the plane, you deserve the ball of flames you go up in."
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/