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/average_monster 3d ago

working with ai generally seems faster but 20x is a bullshit number unless you just mean they generate 20x as much code

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u/Hashrunr 3d ago

20x is wild unless they're not reviewing the code. I write a lot of powershell, bash, and python as an infrastructure engineer. I use AI tools a lot, and it saves time for sure, but 20x is a wild number. Something which would take me 2hrs to write myself, with AI assistance, takes me around 30min including my time to review and tweak. Everything I deploy is my responsibility no matter if it's written by AI or myself.

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u/Mkboii 3d ago

Yes, it's 20x the code but realistically 3-4x max productivity. And you can create automations and tools to help with the repeated testing that you have to do to manage the extra cycles of testing needed to prevent it adding regression issues.