Ridiculous. It's a joke, right? Perhaps the most inefficient and naive solution ever?
CoPilot is regurgitating some solution from its training set, the solution of an inept programmer who would manipulate bits via conversion to string... yikes.
The next iteration of code assistant needs to be able to parse responses like your comment and update the code accordingly. Once a human+computer pair can converge on a correct and admissible solution to _any_ tractable programming task through natural language dialogue, we should start worrying about our jobs going away. Until then, for each line of code generated by AI, there will be two jobs created to maintain that code.
Copilot can do that, sorta. You undo the completion and add something like "... but don't convert it to a string" to the comment, then have it try completing again.
CoPilot is regurgitating some solution from its training set, the solution of an inept programmer who would manipulate bits via conversion to string... yikes.