I find it worrying how often Github Copilot offers to complete my Rust database access code using .execute(), which is a method on the very popular sqlx crate, which I am not using. It feels like I’m constantly being judged by a dumb popular kid for making a less popular choice (in my current case, cornucopia).

Our LLM friends could really regress us to the mean more subtly than media consolidation already does.

I posted this in January 2025 during week 2654.

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