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Yeah mine is demanding that we prove that we're using copilot to generate code.
I wouldn't care so much if copilot wasn't a hot pile of garbage. It's incredibly slow, constantly fails halfway through generating a file, can only handle updating or creating one file at a time, and the code it comes up with always needs manual correction to actually work.
I mainly use it to generate unit tests and it frequently makes shit up that clearly won't work. Like directly invoking non-exported functions that I deliberately choose not to export, because they don't need to be exported.
90% of the time it actually takes me longer to use copilot. The only thing it's good is autocomplete.
How do they expect you to do that? And are they capable of telling the difference if you lie about it?
I’m sure it logs requests somewhere and they can just check