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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it with php which also has a huge amount of code online. The constant checking of the generated code and fixing it was what slowed me down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, makes sense. when i'm not doing a test-driven workflow, i usually only allow copilot to generate simple things. with unit tests it's a lot easier because the tests are easy to read and verify, and they expose the errors in other parts of the code