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I've been using the beta since last year and I love it. I think most of the people complaining about it either haven't used it, or are judging it on its most ve
by ascorbic 4y ago
I've been using the beta since last year and I love it. I think most of the people complaining about it either haven't used it, or are judging it on its most verbose guesses. That's not what I use it for mostly. For me, it's just a really, really good autocomplete. It's best for things with common patterns and APIs. But hey, they're common so I write them a lot. Boring stuff like creating a Response object, adding the right headers and response code. And look, it's worked out that I need a case for a 404 next, and has suggested the code for that to, and a 500 in my catch block. Sure, that's not much typing or cognitive load, but added up over many, many times then it's easily worth it.
And no, I'm not a beginner. I'm a principal with over 20 years experience. I don't really use it for the Stack Overflow-type stuff, but even as an autocomplete it's worth the money. As it happens I'm apparently eligible for free access as an open source maintainer, but I'd pay $100/year in a heartbeat for it. I'd pay for Intellisense if that was $100 too.
- runeks 4y agoHow much time would you say it saves you per day? Ie. how much more productive does it make you? I’m curious whether we’re talking 5% or 30%.
- baby 4y agoIt's hard to tell, but if I would place some baseline "the tool is useful if it helps me this amount per day" somewhere, then it's WELL above that baseline. So I would say that if you can say the tool is useful if it improves 1% of your day, then it's probably at 15-30% right now.
- ascorbic 4y agoWell I'm not coding all day so closer to 5%, but for anyone earning over $200/month that should be worthwhile.
- AJRF 4y ago> Well I'm not coding all day so closer to 5% If you don't code much, and CoPilot only helps with with 5% of that small amount of code, that makes it sound not at all useful.
- ascorbic 4y agoThat's not what my comment says
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoRead the thread again but slower this time