[nbuujocjut]

GitHub Copilot and similar tools make good developers more productive. This alone is a genuine use case with some associated value. Is it enough to justify the valuations of OpenAI etc? Probably not by itself. But I expect other industries have similar productivity boosts where people learn to use the tools appropriately.

What’s the total business opportunity of making all knowledge workers 10% more productive (to pick a more modest goal than outright replacement)?

[sandos]

Generative AI only really helps (a meaningful amount) developers where writing code is actually the bottleneck. I have not been in a such a position for years and years.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

Same experience here. Today I spent 5 hours debugging code, and wondering how I could put 3 contradicting specifications inside while negotiating some weird stuff that does not concerns me, and then I spent 3 hours deleting 100 lines of code and writing 100 lines of code to please everyone. I fail to see how a LLM could have helped me, and I've been doing this for more than 10 years.

[Retr0id]

> GitHub Copilot and similar tools make good developers more productive.

Do we have any empirical evidence of this? It seems like it'd be an easy experiment to run - task a number of teams with building a particular product, some with Copilot and some without, and see what happens.

I've tried copilot myself, and at times it makes me feel more productive, but I can't tell if it's truly helping me overall.