Tvheadend is dragging itself (kicking and screaming) into the 21st century with some dabbling in AI powered development. We have started to tag GitHub issues for Copilot review and assistance. We have started to add issues for project tasks that everybody "forgets" to see what automations it comes up with.
So far the outcomes are a mix of "What is it smoking!?" and "Ohhh, that's not bad.." 🙂
Copilot is quite good at coming up with automation and workflow solutions. It's less good at finding the true root cause of bugs first-time, but human bug hunting is often an iterative process too, and very dependent on having good evidence to investigate. Reprompting "no, look further back in the workflow" when it misses the target can feel like you're teaching a child, but simply being able to do that, then switching focus and attention back to a day-job task while Copilot does further analysis in the background, is rather valuable.
Right now the intelligence is definitely artificial, but we're still learning how to use it effectively, and the models keep improving. It's not the magic you read about in newspapers, but it's already obvious that it's going to be something that we continue to work with.
