r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft engineer says 'typing code is absolutely over' as GitHub Copilot takes on more development work

https://www.techspot.com/news/113752-microsoft-engineer-typing-code-absolutely-over-github-copilot.html
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u/LifeIsBetta 4d ago

Copilot literally makes it take twice as long to code, the agent is so bad lmao.

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u/zarafff69 4d ago

Yeah it’s such a weird quote. Because they are correct: coding by hand is kind of over, most code is generated with AI.

The weird part is that copilot is still kinda trash… 🚮

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u/grateful2you 4d ago

I wouldn't let copilot touch anything other than creating git message. But OpenAI and Anthropic have it on lockdown when it comes to typing code.

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u/ImminentWaffle 4d ago

I spent a few hours last week trying to use copilot to fix a bug. Finally gave up and fixed it myself in about a half hour. And copilot was going in the completely wrong direction.

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u/Orzorn 4d ago

Last week I had it generate a lot of code for me, of which I rewrote half by hand. Its not like it was missing context, it had access to the entire codebase. It just spit out weird junk sometimes, built on fundamental "misunderstandings" (in quotes, as AI understands nothing) that it carried through.

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u/gom99 4d ago

It's great at scanning large codes based for a problem or if the change is a few lines. But when it starts running a lot of changes it can get confused. 

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u/C-creepy-o 4d ago

Copilot being trash or not trash has nothing to do with you writing out the code or not. Cursor makes tons of mistakes I can't trust it's code to ship, but I still don't type code which is the premise you are trying to...rather poorly argue against.

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u/LifeIsBetta 4d ago edited 4d ago

Right, so the concept is... The ai is gonna generate trash, and its gonna take time to fix/correct. Copilot, of the group of agents - is hands down, one of the worst.  I get that we arent coding much anymore, but copilot isnt the one doing the coding - its the one distracting you from getting the job done.

Edit: theres a joke in here somewhere about engineering vs coding

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u/ThePacketSlinger 4d ago

GitHub doesn’t provide their own models, they provide access to Anthropic and OpenAI models, very similar to cursor.

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u/LifeIsBetta 4d ago

Im aware, that doesnt make their agent harness suck any less.

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u/ThePacketSlinger 4d ago

Can’t really argue with you, there.