Neither does the new rust implementation, by the way, and it's marked a wontfix.
Soulless garbage.
Honestly? For over a year now this claim has actually become a bigger red flag to me in hiring than vibe coding stuff. It's nearly always a signifier for insecurity, and people who will waste company money doing things the hard way / need to constantly be reminded that time equals money and economic factors matter.
Not referring to you specifically and I understand the crimes junior devs commit using AI is disgusting, but there are some real productivity boosts to be gained.
I got into a verbal squabble with a colleague on Friday over this "To LLM, or not to LLM" argument. Basically I'm the person you've described, an insecure PowerShell perfectionist who will sit there buffing his scripts to a mirror finish on the company's dime, formatting everything prim and proper. No unacceptable verbs, efficiency above convenience, and adding things which seem superfluous on the surface to lesser minds. (Like WhatIf support)
My colleagues are not like this at all. None of them have any real desire to learn how to script or program nor derive pleasure from it. They just figure things out by necessity and usually by taking prior work and bruteforcing it into doing what they want. Previously they were limited to what they could dig up online or internally, but Copilot has massively broadened their horizons given it can conjure scripts out of thin air.
What set off the fight is a big change to our org structure which is going to need a lot of Active Directory changes. Conveniently I wrote a script last year that does a lot of the needed work (management loves pointless restructures). I gave the script to the chieftain of the Copilot tribe and he took one look, said he doesn't understand it and asked Copilot to produce a replacement.
He provides me the Copilot replacement and it's
disgusting. Everything about it makes me cringe and it's downright unreadable, though he claims the opposite, but it's likely because it's legible to Copilot which means he can ask it to make alterations. It perturbed me, but I'm not going to stop them executing slop so long as they take responsibility when it fucks up and keep my name out of it.
The fight occurred when management wanted me and the Copilot whisperer to come together and sing Kumbaya. I offered to simplify the logic of the old script, but he downright refuses to use something not LLM produced and wanted me to cosign whatever Copilot happened to spit out to appease management. Needless to say that didn't go down well and the call ended on a sour note.
Circling back to your post, I don't care that Copilot can make seemingly functionally equivalent code in 2 seconds where it takes me 2 hours. I don't care that to a middle manager like you who traded his soul for an MBA, it "wastes company money" when I take pride in my work. It's not an assembly line, programming is a form of creativity, and while LLMs do an okay job chewing through common Active Directory tasks, for anything slightly more complicated they shit their pants and hallucinate.
An example of this is involving interacting with APIs for vendor products, Copilot literally just makes up REST endpoints that sound like what you want since it has very shallow knowledge. Given the Copilot tribe doesn't understand how this magic box works, they assume it can work with anything and get led around for sometimes days at a time until they finally come begging for help.
This isn't to say LLMs don't have a place, they're sometimes good for bouncing ideas or asking for suggestions and alternatives, but they're confident liars and you have to double check everything. If you're hiring people who have outsourced their intellect to LLMs, you're hiring morons and those productivity gains will go up in smoke in due course.
The last year I've wasted so many hours of my life correcting ridiculous mistakes, false assumptions, and straight up lies that I eventually find out originated from people having blind faith in LLMs and not double checking anything. That initial productivity gain of having an immediate answer ends up potentially causing big issues later and further demoralizing the few people who give a shit anymore.
