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The only time I have used it is for poorly-documented libraries as a step before “just try to read through all the source code” by asking it to create an example using some function or usecase. I’ve had to do that maybe twice ever. It might be useful in PRs, as some others in our company keep adding copilot as a reviewer, but I’ve seen it make some dumb mistakes but also find some things others missed.
As for having it write actual code, I rejected a PR for having unmaintainable code. The person, who didn’t normally work in the language in question, had used AI to generate it.
The only time I have used it is for poorly-documented libraries as a step before “just try to read through all the source code” by asking it to create an example using some function or usecase. I’ve had to do that maybe twice ever. It might be useful in PRs, as some others in our company keep adding copilot as a reviewer, but I’ve seen it make some dumb mistakes but also find some things others missed.
As for having it write actual code, I rejected a PR for having unmaintainable code. The person, who didn’t normally work in the language in question, had used AI to generate it.