[bisby]

So far, I've never had Copilot "solve a problem" for me.

It has regularly autocompleted what I was going to type anyway.

It has saved me typing time more than it has saved me critical thinking time. Which has value, but not in the same way.

[esperent]

I haven't found Copilot that useful, except as a fancy autocomplete. However, recently I've had Claude solve a lot of problems for me, including some with fairly tricky math. Nothing that I couldn't solve myself. But definitely things that would have taken me from 30 minutes to a few hours, and which with Claude helping me were solved in 5-10 minutes.

As an example from yesterday, I had written a function that returned the position of the camera in 3d space relative to an object. I'd written it fairly quickly and naively using just the direction vector and it mostly worked, but then I realized when the camera was overhead facing down, I also needed to consider the orientation of the camera. I fed my function into Claude, explained the problem without my hunch on how to fix it because it's always interesting to see if I'll get a different solution. But Claude was able to get the same solution as me, and do the maths required, in one go.

[bisby]

I generally don't try to get answers for things I don't already mostly understand anyway (sounds like you did this as well), because if what I get back is a hallucination, I don't want to spend added time figuring that out, and then I'm back at square one and have lost time.