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MixedCopilot · 13 May 2024

The worst, most obscure bugs I've had to debug in the last year were all in Copilot-written code

klauserc on Hacker News

In the thread “Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?”

Helped: Generating additional test cases and implementations from method names.

Got in the way: Writing production code with subtle, obscure bugs.

I find GitHub Copilot close to useless for production code. The worst, most obscure bugs I've had to debug in the last year were all in Copilot-written code. It _looks_ plausible, but it makes extremely subtle mistakes. …