[knowaveragejoe]

I use multiple daily and have definitely seen a productivity boost. If nothing else, it saves typing. But I'd argue they are in essence a better search engine - it answers "you don't know what you don't know" questions very well, providing a jumping off point when my conception of how to achieve something with code or tooling is vague.

[pdimitar]

Typing is, or at least it should be, the least of your time spent during the day doing programming. I don't find optimizing the 5-10% of my workday spent typing impressive, or even worth mentioning.

Granted there are languages where typing takes much more time, like Java and C# but... eh. They are quite overdue for finding better syntax anyway! :)

[NoGravitas]

The languages where typing takes more time also tend to have IDE support to mitigate that --- in a deterministic way, unlike CoPilot.

[pdimitar]

True.

[knowaveragejoe]

I didn't mean typing in the sense of autocomplete, I meant typing in the sense of stubbing out an entire class or series of test cases. It gives me scaffolding to work with which I can take and run with.

[pdimitar]

Yes that's fair. If it helps reduce writing boilerplate then I'm all for it.