Don’t copilot anything longer than a function of about 15 lines. That way you can quickly see if it made mistakes. Ensure it works, move on to the next.
And only do that for boring, repetitive work. The tough challenges and critical parts you’re (for now) better off solving yourself.
Absolutely, I think the people who say it’s completely useless for code are in denial
Definitely not replacing anyone but my god it has sped up development by generating code I already know how to write 90% of
No more having to look up “what was the for loop syntax in this language again?”
I haven’t been in development for nearly 20 years now, but I assumed it worked like that:
You generate unit tests for a very specific function of rather limited magnitude, then you let AI generate the function. How could this work otherwise?
Bonus points if you let the AI divide your overall problem into smaller problems of manageable magnitudes. That wouldn’t involve code generation as such…
Am I wrong with this approach?
