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Yes, the comments. My ability to write comments has gotten significantly better because of Copilot.

It’s awful but in a helpful way. Like it will suggest “if $argument is empty, this function will return an error”, which is not true because $argument is an int, but it does do something wonky if you give it negative numbers so I remember to add that.



> It’s awful but in a helpful way. Like it will suggest “if $argument is empty, this function will return an error”, which is not true because $argument is an int, but it does do something wonky if you give it negative numbers so I remember to add that.

So like an intern/new hire asking what they think are basic questions but lead you to realize an edge case you missed?




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