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by dkersten 783 days ago
The problem I currently have with AI-generated code, as an experienced programmer who can read and understand the output, isn’t that the code quality is bad, but that it’s often buggy and wrong. I recently recommended in my company that if copilot is allowed to be used, the developers using it must thoroughly understand every line of code it writes before accepting it, because the risk of error is too high.

Copilot may work for simple scripts, but even for that where it mostly for things right, in my experience it still introduced subtle bugs and incorrect results more often than not.