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0 pointswidgeyboy1y ago0 comments

I agree with this mostly - but recently a bug was introduced into our app because of a copilot suggestion that wasn't checked thoroughly enough by the engineer (it suggested a property that was similarly named to another property but not the same).

Like you say, it makes the most sense repetitive or easy tasks.

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everforward1y ago

My usage of Copilot is dramatically higher in strictly typed languages because of things like this. It's almost counter-productive if I have to very carefully analyze every variable name to make sure it's not subtly wrong.

Having a compiler do that validation of AI output helps dramatically so I only have to validate logic and not every freaking character in the function.

theshrike791y ago

This is why I have Copilot write unit tests too :D

Actually it does the boring bit of generating the test data and the basic cases, I'll do a once over and add more if it's a something that warrants it.

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