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Then how much time are you actually saving if you have to review everything it produces. The bottle neck was never typing speed, at that point all the AI is all

• dmix 4y ago
  I use Copilot daily and experimented with using ChatGPT for real work code. It’s an incredibly valuable tool even with having to rewrite the larger outputs… the small stuff like autocompleting variables and keys is highly accurate and what it most often generates (it’s scary how good it is at finishing the exact line you had in your head x50 times a day). What you need to be careful about is when it generates entire functions or whole mini-modules. This is still extremely useful because it gets your brain running. It provides a simple template to suggest how it might look. That way you’re no longer starting from scratch, you see a toy example with real code - for intellectual/creative work having that sort of seed is super useful. Imagine a writer with writers block staring at a blank page vs a generated sample of dialogue between two characters or an intro paragraph to get the ball rolling. Usually you have to burn a few cycles, fail a couple times writing some code, to get to the point where you’ve written something good. So it’s a normal part of the process to throw Version 0.1 away IMO.
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