Imagine getting fired and barred from writing code ever again over a bug you introduced because you used copilot and didn't spot the issue.
Pretty sure that would be considered an unacceptable infringement of basic human rights here.
You can assert your ideals all you want but the fact is that professions that govern themselves invariably end up with "what's fair to the bad lawyer".
Licensed professionals are licensed (should be, there are notorious exceptions) because if those professions remain unlicensed, horrible things happen.
Lawyers and medical doctors are two of those. Yes, it would be wrong to prohibit the Starbucks barista from making coffees, no matter how many times such a person burned it.
Software engineering probably falls between licensed professional and burgerflipper on that scale... but let's not full ourselves. If you were working on firmware for medical equipment, then yes banning you from ever doing it again because you used ChatGPT when making a heart rate monitor is just and fair.
Not all of our software matters. But the people working on code for space vessels or aircraft or as in my example, medical equipment? I'm more than happy to see them banned from these things for life if they were to do that.
> You can assert your ideals all you want but the fact is that professions that govern themselves invariably end up with "what's fair to the bad lawyer".
This is irrelevant. We're all aware of how underperformant oversight tends to be. The point is to fix that, to rally against its eventual decline. Certainly I don't know why anyone would want to embrace your attitude of defeat/acceptance.
Imagine getting fired and barred from writing code ever again over a bug you introduced because you used copilot and didn't spot the issue.
Pretty sure that would be considered an unacceptable infringement of basic human rights here.
You can assert your ideals all you want but the fact is that professions that govern themselves invariably end up with "what's fair to the bad lawyer".