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To be fair, they did market it as paired programming with an AI. When pairing, your partner can make mistakes like this as well.

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The entire selling point of pair programming is that your copilot would point out errors like this, not introduce them.

Pairing works when you either pair two strong programmers or pair a strong programmer with a weak one. In the latter case, the main advantage is that it's also a mentoring opportunity.

Copilot has invented a pair programming situation in which your partner constantly introduces dubious code you must painstakingly verify, but is itself incapable of being mentored.

Of course it can be “mentored”, it’s machine learning… I expect this will eventually learn from its users.

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