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MixedCopilot · 24 May 2024

I end up getting burned because it takes me way too long to realize where the error is

cortesoft on Hacker News

In the thread “Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination”

Helped: Usually gets it right, which is great.

Got in the way: Believable but minorly wrong results take too long to detect.

… I have a similar experience using GitHub Copilot… it usually gets it right, which is great, and sometimes gets it really wrong, in which case I don’t use the suggestion and move on with my work. However, every now and then it will give me a result that really looks correct, but is wrong in some minor way, and I end up getting burned because it takes me way too long to realize where the error is.