On: AI can write code like humans, bugs and all

[minimaxir]

I stopped using GitHub Copilot. Not because of the accuracy of its predictions (or potential lack thereof), but because the cognitive overhead / distraction of getting inline suggestions made using Copilot not strictly a net positive in productivity.

And this is before GitHub will start charging for it.

[fallat → minimaxir]

And you instantly realize the code which is being returned is almost always directly from a human being who wrote it anyway.

[minimaxir → fallat]

FWIW the generations have been close to what had intended and/or follow the intended patterns, which appropriate variable names relative to the rest of the script.

But from a QA perspective close isn't enough.

[extheat → fallat]

Not true, it's very good at one-shot learning, even from code you've written in different languages.