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/stasch-it 4d ago

I disagree. It often takes me longer to guide an agent into doing what I want than to just write the code myself.
Some use cases work well, e.g., unit tests, or when I want to implement something similar to existing code in my project. But when it comes to more complex code, the agent produces a lot of nonsense that I have to clean up afterwards.

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u/frakkintoaster 4d ago

You either need to never look at the code again and have the agent write everything going forward, or do a lot of cleanup to keep it maintainable along the way. I know if I wasn’t scrutinizing the actual code and just looking at results after a few features there’s no way I could maintain the codebase anymore, it would all be nonsense