Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

For context, I'm a experienced SWE working on some fairly complex things. I've been using programming GPT copilots for 6-8 months now and lately I've been using them less and less. I think for complete beginners or casual programmers, GPT might be mind-blowing and cool because it can create a for loop or recommend some solution to a common problem. However, for most of my tasks, it usually has ended up being a total waste of time and leads to frustration. Don't get me wrong, it is useful for those basic tasks for which in the past I'd do the google -> Stack Overflow route. However, for anything more complex, it falls flat. Just a recent example from last week - I was working on some dynamic SQL generation. To be fair, it was a really complex task and it was 5pm so I didn't feel like whiteboarding (when in doubt, always whiteboard and skip gpt lol). I thought I'd turn to GPT and ended up wasting 30 minutes while it kept hallucinating and giving me c