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I found during my preview months ago that it would often write bugs that took me longer to correct than if I had written it myself. Has it gotten better? Also

I found during my preview months ago that it would often write bugs that took me longer to correct than if I had written it myself. Has it gotten better? Also in the situation where it suggests x[i+1] and it's wrong, doesn't that annoy you? In both cases I'm sure this is just temporary while LLMs get better. But my experience was they were _just_ a little too annoying last time I used them.

bananapub 4y ago
> Has it gotten better? yes
markasoftware 4y ago
Indeed, it introduces subtle bugs related to indexing pretty often. At one point I had it autocomplete maybe 15 lines of code, and I trusted it because the code was all pretty easy and I had written a descriptive comment, which tends to help out Copilot a lot. However, it introduced a very subtle bug where it used a loop counter `i` where it should have been indexing into an array like `arr[i]`, but it still typechecked and happened not to cause insane errors. Took a lot of time to track down later, and it's a bug I never would have written in myself.