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NoChatGPT, Copilot · 28 Sep 2023

I spend more time double checking whether it's right than I do writing code with it

softfalcon on Hacker News

In the thread “Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Regularly generates non-existent syntax, wrong API versions, and garbage.

… ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot have regularly barfed out garbage for me while I use them. I spend more time double checking whether it's right than I do writing code with it. It's terrible for my use case where I am doing somewhat complex fixes/refactors everywhere. …