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I had to explicitly ask it to generate idiomatic tests and even then it still didn't test all of the parameters that it should have
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Got in the way: Obscure libraries and subtle logic errors in generated code.
Earlier this past week I asked Copilot to generate some Golang tests and it used some obscure assertion library that had a few hundred stars on GitHub. I had to explicitly ask it to generate idiomatic tests and even then it still didn't test all of the parameters that it should have. At a previous job I made the mistake of letting it write some repository methods that leveraged SQLAlchemy. …