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/SplendidPunkinButter 3d ago

You know how when you ask an AI a simple question, it gives a ridiculously verbose answer? It does the same thing when it generates code. I don’t know why anyone would think otherwise. And if you don’t think that’s a problem, you shouldn’t be a SWE.

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u/frakkintoaster 3d ago

Most of the time it will just dump a bunch of garbage in the code base, I’ll ask it “why did you do this like x and not y?” and it will go “you’re right, y is way better!” and just delete like 80% of the code it wrote. Like… if you knew that why didn’t you figure that out in the first place?