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by solardev 960 days ago
I found that Copilot sped up the trivial things (boilerplate, simple APIs, popular algorithms) and routinely messed up the harder tasks (user flows, composing several functions meant to work together, etc.). It was a net negative for me and I stopped using it after a month or two of experimentation.

I did use ChatGpt to replace stackoverflow a few times, and for that it was super helpful. Stack is so full of junior modding closing useful questions left and right with no clear links to the answers. ChatGpt just steals all that content then summarizes the answer, lol.

Overall no faster or slower. But definitely higher quality than humans being argumentative pedants.