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To add on to this. Code generators are only good if you don’t have to maintain the generated code and if they can be relied on to produce good code. Copilot fails both of these tests: when I use it to generate some code, I can’t commit only the comment and run copilot in CI, because the outputs are non-deterministic. Additionally, I have to read the code it generates and verify that it handles the edge-cases correctly: and I have to do this review without having recently gone through the mental work of thinking through the implementation of a spec.


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