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Goodbye stack overflow copy pasting, welcome copilot auto generated code. It will bring similar problem of someone using something they don't understand.

Another extra work for code reviewer. However on the right hand it will be very powerful!




> Goodbye stack overflow copy pasting, welcome copilot auto generated code. It will bring similar problem of someone using something they don't understand.

To be fair, “beat on it until it seems to work” without AI assistance or copy-pasting code also frequently involves a fair amount of “using something they don’t understand”.

OTOH, copy pasta and AI assisted code are less likely to get “I don’t know why this works” or “I don't know why this is necessary” comments to highlight that to the reviewer.




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