This is the part that gets some companies excited though, they know that they can hand the mundane prompting to junior developers then hand off the code to senior developers for testing, QA and release.

What you have is a scooping out of the mid range developers and that's where the savings are.

Co-pilot is far from perfect but it's not bad if you are a Java or Python developer as that's where most of the data is modelled from.

Will AI code tools be perfect, never. Will they make a difference in a company's reduction of the bottom line, definitely.