GitHub Copilot has a bit of an "uncanny valley" effect: the code it produces often looks just fine, but it feels... wrong.

I find myself questioning it a lot more than I would had a human written the same code.

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@fribbledom But is it still “technically correct”?

I’ve also noticed that the VBA generated by excel doesn’t look like a smart way to write something, but it works, so I guess that’s still technically correct.

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