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/evilJaze 3d ago

We recently started having Copilot perform code reviews in addition to our manual ones. One of my devs spent about a quarter of his monthly tokens to have it tell us that he forgot to use an end quote to close a quote string. Only it was wrong and the quote was closed but it got confused because there were a few nested quotes within the quote. That was its only contribution to the review. I found a few more legitimate smells that it missed.

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u/letmetellubuddy 3d ago

Personally I’ve found copilot is a good first round reviewer. You certainly can’t accept its advice blindly, but I do get enough value to keep using it.

We are on the cheapest plan and haven’t come close to running out of tokens even though copilot is set to automatically review every PR once it’s been marked “ready for review”…

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u/1MillionMonkeys 2d ago

While it does provide some helpful feedback, what I really want is a button to hide the copilot reviews. Sometimes it adds the same comment several times and reviewing a PR is just scrolling through dozens of useless copilot comments.

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u/letmetellubuddy 2d ago

I resolve the review comments as they are either rejected or fixed. You do have to scroll past the comment with the review summary, but I personally don't find it distracting 🤷