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6 months ago I laughed at AI code generators, now I use one daily
I saw a coworker fix a bug in like 30 seconds using GitHub Copilot and I was honestly shook, so I tried it myself and it got me through a messy refactor that would've taken me all weekend. Has anyone else had that moment where you just completely flipped on a tool?
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julia_jones721mo ago
Tried Copilot once and it wrote my whole regex in like 2 seconds.
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fiona_clark1mo ago
Give it another shot with something more complex than matching a few email addresses. Copilot craps out hard when you need something with lookarounds or nested groups that actually works across different data sets. It wrote me a mess of a regex the other day that looked right but missed edge cases and broke on null values. I spent more time debugging its junk than I would have just writing it from scratch. It's fine for basic patterns but anything beyond that and you're better off doing it yourself or using a proper regex tool.
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