When studying fine art, a tutor of mine talked about "things that look like art", by which she meant the work that artists produce when they're just engaging wi

When studying fine art, a tutor of mine talked about "things that look like art", by which she meant the work that artists produce when they're just engaging with surface appearances rather than fully engaging with the process. I've been using GitHub Copilot for a while and find that it produces output that looks like working code but, aside from the occasional glaring mistake, it often has subtle mistakes sprinkled throughout it too. The plausibility is a serious issue, and means that I spend about as much time checking through the code for mistakes as I'd take to actually write it, but without the satisfaction that comes from writing my own code. I dunno, maybe LLMs will get good enough eventually, but at the moment it feels plausible to me that there's some kind of an upper limit caused by its very nature of working from a collection of previous code. I guess we'll see...