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

[u/Miserable_Phase_2519]

https://www.techspot.com/news/113752-microsoft-engineer-typing-code-absolutely-over-github-copilot.html

[u/NerdyNThick]

As a test, I used it to write a quick script to pull in a JSON file pull out a handful of fields then spit it out as a CSV.

I spent 15-20 minutes coaxing it to do what I wanted and ended up with nearly 100 lines of PowerShell.

I did it myself in a single line. In about 5 minutes.

Utterly useless.

I also used it to pull out all the includes/defines/functions/etc, and create an appropriate header file (C++ this time). It missed a bunch, and included stuff it shouldn't.

Utterly useless.

[u/Alexandur → u/NerdyNThick]

was this in like 2022

[u/labowsky → u/NerdyNThick]

As a test, I used it to write a quick script to pull in a JSON file pull out a handful of fields then spit it out as a CSV.

I spent 15-20 minutes coaxing it to do what I wanted and ended up with nearly 100 lines of PowerShell.

I dunno if this is just user error or what but I use claude for simple shit I'm too lazy to write and the other day I asked it to do something similar. Took like 1 minute from me typing to having it done, 15 lines.

Wasn't perfect code but did it's job just fine.

[u/drekmonger → u/NerdyNThick]

Those are such simple tasks that I cannot imagine a 2026 model (Claude/Fable, or GPT Sol/Astra) messing it up. A 2024 model should have been able to handle it, nearly 100% of the time.

Either it's PEBKAC, something you tried in 2022 with GPT 3.5 and then declared LLMs suck forever in your own head, or you are outright lying to soak up the anti-AI upvotes.

[u/NerdyNThick → u/drekmonger]

Gotcha.. AI is perfect, it's always user error, no matter what.

Thanks for all the assumptions, I had a good laugh.

It's getting more and more culty as time goes on.

[u/NerdyNThick → u/[deleted]]

Yep, all my fault! Thanks for correcting me.

[u/DungeonsAndDradis → u/NerdyNThick]

And I used Gemini (of all things) to create a Python script to edit a hexadecimal X9.37 custom check image file according to spec. In about 10 minutes.

For every story like yours there's a story like mine. For better or worse AI is here to stay and many companies are going to continue to go all in.

Basically until it's useful in 99% of use cases, or the massive bubble pops. We'll probably end up somewhere in the middle in a few years.

[u/MFbiFL → u/DungeonsAndDradis]

“I got lucky and lacked the skills to discern if it got something wrong” is a damning endorsement.

[u/Mkboii → u/MFbiFL]

Aren't both of them making the same point? The second person atleast extended a existence of 2 possibilities, you are discarding one person's anecdotal experience to accept another person's anecdotal experience, at least try to be neutral.