[turkishmonky]

My experience with DALLE-2 and Copilot makes me think we are quite far off from AI being able to perform software dev on it's own. Both tools need a lot of oversight to pick out usable pieces from the gibberish that gets spit out most of the time.

That said, copilot is a great tool for generating boilerplate code, like writing a model class for a parsed JWT token or adding tedious annotations somewhere. I've used GPT-3 to generate javadoc headers for a codebase before with decent success. It gets way more fragile when there's an actual problem to be solved though, and is basically unusable about 100% of the time on complex areas of code.

From my experience, the real result will be that AI might replace interns and some people who are only doing the tedious data modeling parts of coding, but there's a very, very long way to go before it will be able to be more than just a tool for developers to code slightly faster.