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NoCopilot · 29 Jan 2024

I caught myself debugging and fixing more issues introduced by Copilot than my own, issues that wouldn't make myself

lobocinza on Hacker News

In the thread “New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'”

Helped: Autocomplete saved time on familiar codebase.

Got in the way: Unintended triggers caused bad code in production.

… The issue is that due to the law of large numbers some of the bad code it frequently produced found it's way to production. Eventually I caught myself debugging and fixing more issues introduced by Copilot than my own, issues that wouldn't make myself. But I think this was majorly an UX problem because often I triggered a completion without desiring or even noticing it due to typing fast. …