https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/your-ai-coding-assistant-is-a-hot-mess

Joe Reeve, an engineering manager at digital analytics platform Amplitude, used AI coding assistant Github Copilot to produce a segment of one of his recent coding projects. It was a fairly simple, if time-consuming, function — one that Reeve had written by himself plenty of times before. “It saved me 25 minutes of writing,” he recalls. “About two hours later, I hit a bug in the code. It took me another two to three hours to figure out what the issue was.” 

The culprit? The AI tool had made a tiny but significant mistake in the code by switching the direction of a single ‘greater-than’ sign. “Since then, I've been much more sceptical of the code that it generates,” says Reeve – but he doesn’t want to quit using it just yet. “It’s a very, very powerful tool.”