Bob Browning's blog

I came back to my lockdown project (which was a data maintenance program that works with several databases) and decided to port it to Windows. This is because my Unix box went belly-up. Also I needed to exercise my brain.

A couple of times now I have copied and pasted code into Microsoft’s Co-Pilot and asked what is wrong. Both times it has come back with the answer.

The first time it corrected some invalid Typescript code, and when I asked, told me what it had changed.

The second time is something I have done many times with programmers in my team; suggested a few fairly obvious things to look at and lo and behold, to my shame, the most obvious issue was the answer. It is in the nature of software bugs that quite often a programmer (me included) will become so obsessed with one line of enquiry, that the obvious solution gets lost.

So when you or a developer comes up against an interactable problem, give AI a shot.