[stackbutterflow]

10 days ago someone was making this claim about copilot on legacy code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932609

> Github Copilot has been great in getting that code coverage up marginally but ass otherwise.

[slopinthebag]

That's a completely different claim. Or do you think an AI can always, without fail, produce working code in every situation? That's trivially false.

[stackbutterflow]

It's also trivially true that an AI has at least once been able to write a working hello world.

When someone claims that AI can't generate working code I assume that it means consistently generating working code. We're talking about a tool. It has to work more often than not and on codebases that we tend to work with, i.e legacy code.

Personally I don't claim that because I'm using everyday to generate working code.