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NoCopilot · 15 Mar 2023

I'm convinced Copilot made the whole process ten times harder than it needed to be

specproc on Hacker News

In the thread “40% of the code GitHub Copilot users check-in is AI generated and unmodified”

Helped: Docstrings, boilerplate, and simple recursive JSON traversal tasks.

Got in the way: Preempting with plausible-sounding variable names and merges leading astray.

… Pulling in a data from several very broken sources with horrible naming conventions, patching holes and generally trying to make a sane dataset out of nonsense. I'm convinced Copilot made the whole process ten times harder than it needed to be. It was constantly pre-empting me with plausible-sounding variable names and merges which led me off down the wrong path a few times. …