Still experimenting with Copilot for #Java development, and writing. I typed this: "As Java developers, there is an analogue to this " - and here's what its autocomplete suggestion was: "As Java developers, there is an analogue to this in the Java ecosystem: the ability to work at different levels of abstraction within the Java ecosystem."

One of the most striking things about it when using it for writing is the repetitive, circular nature of a lot of what it suggests. 1/ 

 Now, because I know a certain amount about how LLMs work, this isn't actually a surprise to me - and I've known about this effect since reading van der Linden's rather overlooked classic "Expert C Programming" back in '97 or so, but it still seems to surprise a lot of the breathless hype merchants. /2