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by usbsea 615 days ago
It is not like pair programming at all. At least yet.

* There is no social stuff to deal with. You want a break but don't want to look like a slacker, so you keep going. Etc.

* The assistant can be turned off. It can also be turned on at 1am if you need it.

* The assistant has the reasoning power of a flea and knows nothing of your mission. Had to use Github Copilot due to AI policies and that is worse than most of the scrappy startup ones, in that it won't even look at other files.