[rjh29]

Uh, yeah. Consider how much programmers are paid per hour. Or how often you look up Stack Overflow or language documentation.

[jpollock]

If a programmer is paid per hour, then this is only worthwhile if it increases their hourly wage. Otherwise, it's just another cost.

Now, if they are paid per job and it makes them more productive... That's different.

[margalabargala]

The majority of programmers in the US are salaried.

[croes]

Isn't the lookup part of the learning?

If you just get the solution the learning gets smaller.

[hutzlibu]

Yes, but I do not want to learn all the internals of every random API, if copilot can help me with avoiding some, I am interested.