[adriand]

I’ve been using it regularly for programming assistance over the past two weeks and it’s extremely helpful. Others have pointed out that it sometimes produces inaccurate results, but if you already have domain expertise, as I do for programming, that is easy to identify. But it’s still a massive timesaver!

I’ve been doing things like saying, “what follows is the database schema for entities X and Y, write a function that…” and then pasting in the schema, and it generates code good enough to copy and paste. It can also be instructed to modify results in various ways, for instance, I can ask it to provide the same code but in a different language, or to avoid using a certain framework feature, or to use a certain framework feature. It’s remarkable.

Between ChatGPT and Copilot my workflow today is different in a way I couldn’t have begun to contemplate just a few weeks ago. Once they figure out additional ways to ensure correctness, I think it’s a totally new world we live in.