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I've tried it for even some boiler plate code a few times. I've had to end up rewriting it every time.
It makes mistakes like Junior engineers, but it doesn't make them in the same way that junior engineers do, which means that as a senior engineer it takes me significantly more effort to review. It also makes mistakes that humans don't, which is even weirder to catch in review.
Also my experience. It sometimes tries to be smart and gets everything wrong.
I think code shows clearly, that LLMs don't actually understand what's written. Often enough you can clearly see it trying to insert a common pattern even though that doesn't make sense at this point.
As a junior-to-mid-level developer I find myself having to rewrite the boilerplate code copilot comes up with as often as not, or it will get things slightly wrong that I then have to go back and fix. I'm starting to think that most of the time it would be just as quick for me to just write it all myself.