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> writing cryptographic code

Delegating the implementation of something that you are notoriously never supposed to roll your own, to a text generator AI.... What could possibly go wrong?

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I think you got the wrong idea on how people use copilot. You don't just accept everything it throws at you. Think about it as an auto-complete on steroid, would you say that auto-complete is dangerous to use? If not, then this is the same. The suggestions of copilot don't always compile, but they sometimes manage to find the right function to use, or the right combination of functions, or even the right comment (if you're writing a comment).

The problem with copilot is that other than the most basic boilerplate generation. It takes just as much effort to verify its output is correct than to come up with a correct answer.

I disagree, from my usage it sets up a lot of the boilerplate code, the types, etc. and will also find the correct functions and all without having me look up the doc again.

In other words they didn't roll their own.

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