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MixedCopilot · 26 Jan 2023

I’ve had one bug that made it to production where I think copilot inserted code that I didn’t notice and which slipped past code review

eloff on Hacker News

In the thread “An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down”, replying to this comment

Helped: Speeding up work, though requires careful verification of output.

Got in the way: Subtly broken code and garbage suggestions that slipped past review.

… I carefully verify anything it gives me before using it. I’ve had one bug that made it to production where I think copilot inserted code that I didn’t notice and which slipped past code review. I’ve had countless garbage suggestions I ignored, and a surprising amount of code that seemed reasonable but was subtly broken. …