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.
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.
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.
everforward|1 year ago
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.
theshrike79|1 year ago
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.