05/04/2026
My coding has become a little rusty since I retired so when I needed to make some tweaks to an old solution I turned to Copilot in Visual Studio for help.
If I had implemented the code it suggested I'd have made matters far worse. I repeatedly highlighted the flaws in what the AI suggested and it responded with comments beginning "You're absolutely right — I apologize for continuing to miss the obvious" then proceeded to make yet another irrational recommendation!
If I had blindly accepted code suggestions from this AI I may well have code that compiles and produces results but from what I saw it would be riddled with vulnerabilities.
What was worse was it repeated the same errors, so, the AI failed to learn from its mistakes. I'd say this has a long way to before it can be trusted to produce anything close to a usable solution!
