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There are tricks to getting better output from it, especially if you're using Copilot in VS Code and your employer is paying for access to models, but it's still asking for trouble if you're not extremely careful, extremely detailed, and extremely precise with your prompts.
And even then it absolutely will fuck up. If it actually succeeds at building something that technically works, you'll spend considerable time afterwards going through its output and removing unnecessary crap it added, fixing duplications, securing insecure garbage, removing mocks (God... So many fucking mocks), and so on.
I think about what my employer is spending on it a lot. It can't possibly be worth it.