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There is exactly one situation in which it sort of makes sense: Copilot integrated with VS Code, running repo-specific commands like
yarn build, with direct human oversight.That's it. That's the only situation.
And thank God it can do that too because "copilot build my project" saves me the intense labor and frustration of hitting F7 on my keyboard
is there any value in saving like ten keystrokes it would take to type the command yourself while introducing the ability for an AI to hallucinate your code to death
Not really. I'm using Copilot for my job because I'm required to, but I limit it to creating basic scripts that accomplish very specific tasks, which it's okay at. I never let it touch my actual codebase.
Every experiment I've run to test how it does with real code from a large, production application has failed miserably. It introduces mocks, it duplicates stuff everywhere, it fakes shit when real APIs are available... I have no fucking idea how these "AI" companies have managed to convince so many businesses that producing catastrophically shitty code very quickly is a good thing.
Required by higher-ups? How does that work? “Use the hallucination machine or you’ll be fired”?
Basically. "Integrate AI into your workload starting now, or we'll replace you with someone who will".
jenkins?