#415: On Copiloting

I’ve been working on a simple iOS app in my spare time, partly for fun, and to try out Github Copilot. I’m a passable front-end developer, and if the code’s already there I can generally figure out what it does even if I’m new to the language. That makes me, I’d guess, a relatively common use case for an AI-assisted pair programmer (I picture this as a literal parrot on my shoulder, squawking at me about Bindings and State variables).

But I have to say, my biggest realization after a couple of we...