I think this GH Copilot looks really cool but I wonder how many more or less subtle bugs are going to end up in codebases because of it. The snippets it generates are rather large, a tired dev on a deadline will probably not take the time of carefully reviewing them if they seem to mostly work as-is.
Paradoxically I think that the more it'll improve the more dangerous it'll become, because if the Copilot gets it right 99% of the time you're more likely to miss the 1% of the time it doesn't. It's like car autopilots in a way, the better they become the more the driver lowers their guard and the more dangerous they become.
Paradoxically I think that the more it'll improve the more dangerous it'll become, because if the Copilot gets it right 99% of the time you're more likely to miss the 1% of the time it doesn't. It's like car autopilots in a way, the better they become the more the driver lowers their guard and the more dangerous they become.
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