HaileyJun 26

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Show threadHaileyJun 26
You know back in my day, we had static analysis tooling that would give you exactly this kind of feedback, except it was correct. Now we have shit which only looks at the vibes of the source text and does no semantic analysis whatsoever, so of course it's just fucking wrong
Show threadAndrewJun 27
@hailey its endlessly frustrating watching coworkers struggle with incorrect suggestions from copilot instead of an analyzer that *actually understands the rest of the code and the names of members*
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@hailey I think vscode entirely lacks the latter option which is probably why… dear god can we please just get everyone using pycharm this is infuriating
Jun 27 at 4:52pmWeb