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Every developer's relationship with Copilot in two frames. First you're all polite about it, nodding along like "ah yes, very innovative, love what you've done with the place." Then reality kicks in and you're frantically googling how to turn off the AI that keeps autocompleting your variable names into Shakespearean sonnets. It's like having an overly enthusiastic intern who won't stop suggesting "improvements" to your perfectly functional code. Sure, it can write a binary search tree, but can it stop interrupting me every three seconds? Didn't think so.

GitHub Copilot's autocomplete is so aggressive that searches for "how to turn off Copilot" have skyrocketed 266%. That's not a bug report—that's a cry for help. The tool meant to make you code faster has become the clingy coworker who finishes your sentences wrong. You type "function get" and suddenly you've got 47 lines of code you didn't ask for, solving a problem you don't have. The real kicker? People are so desperate to disable it that they're Googling the same question over and over, probably because Copilot keeps autocompleting their search query with something completely useless. It's the digital equivalent of trying to politely tell someone to stop helping you.

The classic bull in a china shop, but make it tech. That's Cursor AI—the new code assistant—asking if it can bring its "friend" into your pristine codebase. Every developer who's ever let an AI tool loose on their project knows that feeling of watching it confidently rewrite your carefully crafted code into something that technically works but somehow manages to violate every coding standard you've established over the last decade. Five minutes later, you're frantically running git reset --hard while quietly questioning your life choices.