My wife has a colleague that has recently starting to use copilot and "AI" at work.
Wife said, that her code has been utter shit the last months because of it.
Nothing works.

Sounds about right.

Welcome back

not surprised

what a surprise !!! FUCK AI.

I find that interesting and a bit surprising if that coworker is a decent Dev. One of my coworkers uses it to get some examples of some advanced query logic and that worked fine.

I haven't been able to use it yet due to security reasons but i would expect it to help me with boilerplate and ci/cd code. The AI we have now is just fancy autocompletion and should be able to handle that accurately.

These are the same people who think that programmers are a thing of the past, because 🌈 AI can do everything™ 🌈

Everyone I know who hopped on the Copilot bandwagon stopped using it. They are using chatgpt to explain stuff, but they realized that collaboration breaks down and a team's performance reduces to that of Copilot if committed code isn't understood and justified by a person.

I use it, and find it works well if you're aware of caveats.

It's not a miracle tool, but for relatively common logic, repetitive boilerplate code, simple algorithms, etc. it's right more than wrong I find.

Yes, if I couldn't code and just relied on it to always be correct I'd end up with a jumbled mess - half of what it predicts won't even compile. Used a bit like a smarter Intellisense though - it's a useful tool imho.

The only use case I can see a copilot useful is when writing IaC, given that you planned the infra by yourself first.

I asked ChatGPT 4 for to recommend movies of a particular genre and it did give me a nice list of 10 movies with a short description, only that the description might not actually be from that movie, but another one (of the same genre) that is not even listed.

I suppose that's how the code is: Looks reasonable and correct on first sight, but might contain some hidden wtf treasures of shit.

@kobenz

Interesting, and it is actually true if I am thinking about the times I really tried to give it a chance