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by nzach 779 days ago
But this doesn't apply to all domains equally.

Debbuging, for example, is harder than programming. And the difficulty is related to the 'amount of code' you are debbuging.

This means it is pretty easy to verify the Copilot's output when he just spits out a couple of lines at a time. But you will have a pretty bad time when you ask ChatGPT for a complete service. Things will not work out and the time you take to fix it will be greater than what you saved in the first place.

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Absolutely, which is why you have the LLM generate one method for you at a time.

This still increases your productivity dramatically, and shift you into the role of editor rather than writer.

That depends entirely on how quickly you can write the method on your own.