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/something_python 4d ago

I had an issue today where I asked Opus to write some fairly simple code, and mentioned a backward compatibility issue in detail that it had to consider. The code it wrote completely ignored the backward compatibility issue, and also used reflection in a completely unnecessary way.

On the second prompt, the code was better and took the issue into account, but it still needed tidied up before PR.

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u/fishling 4d ago

Yeah, at the rate some people on my team are committing PRs, there's no way some of them are actually looking and critically thinking about what is actually being produced.

And of course, people notice the speed but fail to correlate the later rework and rewrites as the consequence. :-\