Agreed. I finally tried Github Copilot for a bit at work. It felt like babysitting a bad developer. I have no confidence in the correctness of the code it produces, so everything requires careful review. Sometimes it spits out very broken code on non trivial tasks.
I’m still figuring out if/how it can make me more productive.
First impression is it’s more a drain on productivity than not.
I have found it does a ok job of writing simple bash utility scripts.
Stuff like "I need a bash script that saves my current git branch into a temp file, then another script to create a new git branch based off the value in the file"
I get you hate writing unit tests (we all do), but in reality it's a more technically difficult and intricate problem than writing business logic code itself. Testing is the very last place I'd trust an AI.
Once I read your comment I could feel that quality (something uncanny valley about his "empathy") in those videos, which I hadn't picked up on before you pointed it out.
