I’ve been using copilot for half a year now and it’s helpful, but often wrong. I carefully verify anything it gives me before using it. I’ve had one bug that made it to production where I think copilot inserted code that I didn’t notice and which slipped past code review. I’ve had countless garbage suggestions I ignored, and a surprising amount of code that seemed reasonable but was subtly broken.
This will still require a human lawyer (and/or intern, depending on the stakes) to check its output carefully. I am not now, nor have I ever been afraid that AI is coming after my job. When it does, we’re dangerously close to general AI and a paradigm shift of such magnitude and consequence that it’s called The Singularity. At which point we may have bigger worries than jobs.