I'm a coder who has worn a lot of hats, from individual contributor to lead engineer to "CTO" (yes, in quotes, make of that what you will!). I've a lot to learn and hopefully some to share as well.
I have been using it since last year. I've found it helpful and I will pay for it. It's cheap relative to the productivity gains I get out of it.
When I get lucky, it writes entire functions and long snippets of code for me correctly, or close to it, but that's fairly rare. Where it shines is automating repetitive code writing and boilerplate. Here's an example that I remember from today, and I was able to reproduce right now, writing a new CLI script for Node.js. The dim text is Copilot's suggestion, which are spot-on in this case.
That's a fair bit of typing it saved me, and it does that pretty often. Of course, it often generates code I don't want too, and I waste (usually sub-second) time looking at a garbage suggestion. But it's a net positive.
And the more you use it, the more effective it becomes, as you become better at predicting what it's going to suggest and when it's going to be helpful.
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I have been using it since last year. I've found it helpful and I will pay for it. It's cheap relative to the productivity gains I get out of it.
When I get lucky, it writes entire functions and long snippets of code for me correctly, or close to it, but that's fairly rare. Where it shines is automating repetitive code writing and boilerplate. Here's an example that I remember from today, and I was able to reproduce right now, writing a new CLI script for Node.js. The dim text is Copilot's suggestion, which are spot-on in this case.
That's a fair bit of typing it saved me, and it does that pretty often. Of course, it often generates code I don't want too, and I waste (usually sub-second) time looking at a garbage suggestion. But it's a net positive.
And the more you use it, the more effective it becomes, as you become better at predicting what it's going to suggest and when it's going to be helpful.