[uberman]

I use co-pilot for enhanced tab-completion of small blocks of code. Basically, it saves me some typing now and again. I find it guesses incorrectly a third of the time but I often still tab complete then go back and fix it. Is this "using ai to write 90% of my code"?

When I have used copilot conversation mode and requested a refactoring or provided what I felt was a clear description of my task, the result shave always been a failure that required more time to resolve than if I had just done the work myself.

These are issues I could see and determine where wrong. I weep for the future where these changes get pushed live because no-one knows what the vibe-coders did any more.

[simanyay]

I don't think they mean auto-complete, though I have no proof of that. If they include auto-completion, that's extremely disingenuous on their part. While I expect something like this from VCs hyping their portfolios, I'd expect NYT journalists to do more due diligence.

[uberman]

I agree, except, co-pilot currently reports that I have used 35% of my code completion quota (and 0% of my conversation quota).

I'm sure if it is tracking that telemetry, there are similar management reports that will claim it "wrote" whatever was tab completed if not claim credit for any line that included tab completion.