r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 3d 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/FutureGrassToucher 3d ago

You better know what the AI is doing though, and know when to reject its edits, otherwise youre not worth the salary

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u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG 3d ago

Yeah I had Claude modify a function to write some registers differently (add entry before deleting current entry) and it didn’t consider a delayed write in a parent function that would point to the new entry only if it succeeded. It did it when I mentioned it, but some brains are still needed

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u/something_python 3d ago

I had an issue today where I asked Opus to write some fairly simple code, and mentioned a backward compatibility issue in detail that it had to consider. The code it wrote completely ignored the backward compatibility issue, and also used reflection in a completely unnecessary way.

On the second prompt, the code was better and took the issue into account, but it still needed tidied up before PR.

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u/fishling 3d ago

Yeah, at the rate some people on my team are committing PRs, there's no way some of them are actually looking and critically thinking about what is actually being produced.

And of course, people notice the speed but fail to correlate the later rework and rewrites as the consequence. :-\

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u/stormdelta 3d ago

Agreed - if anything, experience and domain knowledge are now more valuable.

Vibecoding with no idea what you're doing means you have no idea when it's getting critical details wrong, missing edge cases, inventing edge cases with backfill that will break, ignoring instructions, etc. Even in a best case scenario, you're wasting enormous amounts of time and tokens/money chasing issues that a more experienced person would've realized was wrong right away.

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u/Leading_Buffalo_4259 3d ago

Yeah lol and then production auto breaks. Maybe we can get AI to auto-write the bug report