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This is as credible as Ford doing a survey and finding out people got way more done with Ford trucks. I found copilot to be nothing but a hinderance and additi
by jacobsenscott 4y ago
This is as credible as Ford doing a survey and finding out people got way more done with Ford trucks.
I found copilot to be nothing but a hinderance and additional cognitive load. Not only do you need to think about the code you want, you need to review the (usually wrong) code copilot produces and either reject it or edit it to make it right. This is a lot more mental overhead than just writing the code.
- epolanski 4y agoI donk't like copilot. I don't like sending MS my code, I don't trust it to not violate copyright, and from what I used it, it feels like using dall-e trying to phrase what I expect. Moreover writing boilerplate is rarely my daily activity, when it is, it's faster to copy paste from a similar file. On the other hand, few exceptional devs I know, the kind of rockstar 10x engineer, insanely productive and very smart about product and business, not just great coders, people that were leads in faang 15 years ago already and are responsible for high impact quality sooftware, speak very highly of it and how better it makes them, which crushes my doubts about copilot.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoAs a 10x engineer with 24 years of experience, I stand by my opinion that it is meh at best.
- DoesntMatter22 4y agoAre you actually saying you are a 10x developer? Like you are way better than average? Because that pretty much kills your credibility right there. "Oh I'm right because I'm so great". If you are indeed a 10x developer I'd love to see some of the great code you've written.
- ipaddr 4y ago10x developers are not modest people
- DoesntMatter22 4y agoThey usually aren't modest but they also aren't insecure enough to have to say they are 10x developers. If you are good other people will generally be telling you how good you are.
- ipaddr 4y agoWho 2xers or 5xers? Or do you need to be voted in by other 10ers?
- throwaway675309 4y agoYeah, I kind of assumed they were writing this facetiously, because otherwise that kind of type-a prima donna Wagnerian complex is like shorthand for: "hey let's never be friends".
- bastardoperator 4y agoI hope so. One look at the gh handle and you can see this person has less commits in ten years than your average developer in a single day.
- jjwiseman 4y agoWithout Copilot, I still end up editing a large percentage of the code I write. It feels like a net win.
- bitwize 4y agoI think that's a Bruce Tognazzini thing where you feel like it's a cognitive load, but you are actually way more productive with it than without. I feel the same way about regular autocomplete, but that's a must for productivity.
- danjc 4y agoAgreed. I found that its suggestions constantly break flow as you’re now evaluating something that was pushed on you. Beyond basic algorithms and boilerplate code completion (which would arguably be better implemented via better intellisense than ML), it was basically zero help. Even in the areas it helped, time to eval mostly equaled the time I would have taken to write the same thing manually.