When Copilot's Confidence Lies // AIDRAN

The institutional cost of AI coding tool unreliability is not lost in failed deployments — it accumulates in the verification overhead developers absorb before deployment. When Copilot strips quotes from a batch script and delivers the result with the same presentational confidence as a correct suggestion, it eliminates the signal developers rely on to decide when to trust the output and when to audit it. The tool has externalized its uncertainty onto the developer without disclosing that it has done so.

Copilot's Quote-Stripping Bug Exposes Hidden Developer Burdens

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