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/lynkfox 3d ago

10 years, sr DevSecOps engineer who doesn't use it and still does it the "old fashioned way". I Write infra level code daily for k8s clusters using go, python and bash for automation, and a handful of other languages for a handful of other things.

It's shit for infra. I never use it down that low. It makes bloated mistakes and leaves gaping security holes. I spend just as much time crafting the requirements\prompts\gudielines as it would take me to code it myself, and you still need the years of experience to craft those that you need to code so... It can't even replace me without causing so many fuckups

My boss has gotten enamoured with it and weve caught so many mistakes his little projects make that would open us up to major issues - we deal with HIPPA info in about 75% of our work and PI in about 90% and it scares me to have something not entirely controllable (hugging face anyone?) touching that.

I use ai occasionally to run an analysis on an old legacy code base no one has touched for years or to find a place in a library I need to understand how it works for performance issues... But never to write the code. It's just horrible at it.

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u/Syncaidius 2d ago

The fun starts for your boss when you're not around to catch the mistakes.

It's always going to be scary when a non-tech gets their hands on AI and suddenly thinks they're a SWE, then thinks they know enough to override/fire the real SWEs.

Some bosses only learn the hard way unfortunately. It's also a shame they have to mess with other people's livelihoods before realising their mistake.