[flyingspaceship]

I unsubbed because it didn't seem $10 / month helpful to me, to be honest. I subbed for awhile and thought it was magical and a gamechanger and eventually became bored, and it's suggestions simply weren't useful enough. The magic of auto fill disappeared for me and the gimmick was over.

I had a ton of headaches from blindly accepting it's output when I'm in a rush and then later on realizing that it made my code dumber and reduced functionality. There were nuances as to why I was coding things the way that I was, why I used solution C, and not solution A, when A was the most obvious and rote, but broke features.

[solumunus]

Copilot does kind of suck, it’s incredibly slow. I switched to Supermaven and it’s significantly faster at suggesting and the suggestions are at least twice as good, at least on my project.

[sunaookami]

It was a game changer at launch when it was free. Now it's slow and worse.

[avree]

Even if it was lightning-fast, it never was a game changer, as it has very low quality of output.

[mewpmewp2]

I find your reasoning quite odd. It either must be 0 effect or actively harmful to not justify a $10/cost. How much do you value an hour of your time? Because even 1 percent productivity gain would be worth more than $10 a month for me.

[bravetraveler]

They explained decently how it was harmful. Cleaning up after it regularly broke things, when given a chance.

To be blunt, it's perfectly reasonable. They didn't even get that proclaimed "one percent!"

How does one even meaningfully measure this? No matter.

In their case, instead of saving time or effort, it was adding. It was a removable cost.

If one really wants to dwell, there's game theory. Could it be made to be effective? Probably. Is it worth it? Don't know.

They told us 'no', we should listen for their situation.

At risk of splitting hairs, I need more than one percent. This isn't a vacuum, I'm not a spherical cow, etc.

Point being: wanting both my money and attention has a high bar of admission. Learning a thing has a cost, becoming dependent, and so on.

I'm well into rambling now, feel free to tune out. I'm not sacrificing autonomy for a pittance. I was fine before I knew about $OFFERING. Truth in advertising is idealistic, at best.

[mewpmewp2]

But saying it wasn't worth the $10 contradicts a bit with net negative harm. The way they worded it, made it sound like while there was harm, there was some sort of benefit, but it just wasn't worth specifically $10.

[flyingspaceship]

I guess I see it like how I see any autofill, like the one above my keyboard on my phone right now. When I first got a smartphone and saw it, I was thrilled and messed around with it. I would play with it and see how things would go if I just spammed it to see how sentences turn out. Eventually I just cut it out even if it might save me time. I don't care about it anymore, and life isn't just about reaching the end of a sentence as quickly as possible.

However in the case of AI, I am not sure it helps me code any faster. I have to do tons of code cleanup when it messes something up and I "forgot" the logic of how the application was working because I let AI take the reins.