Copilot is no match for my bad spelling
#copilot #lacks-context #proof-reading #ai-makes-mistakes
I have poor spelling, especially when typing, and I often miss mistakes when proofreading (as anyone who has reviewed my PRs will know). So I’ve outsourced some of that to Copilot. In a perfect example, it just showed how it can get something wrong, miss the context, and be utterly confident in its change.
A traditional spell checker would have highlighted my mistake, and I would have manually reviewed it, understood the context, and corrected it to what I actually meant.
For a small content blog it’s not a major issue, but imagine if it was a legal document or critical software!
The irony? The bit it mangled was the part about Copilot mistakes snowballing. I couldn’t have written it better had I planned it (and if you have reviewed my PRs, you will know it was not planned!).
