This reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend while playing Factorio together. Traditionally you'd put a list of recipe ratios into a spreadsheet and the

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend while playing Factorio together. Traditionally you'd put a list of recipe ratios into a spreadsheet and then calculate what you need. But there's a mod called Helm that can handle all those calculations for you, so you just need to specify what logistics components you'll be using. His immediate comment was "that takes all the fun out of it", to which I responded "it just moves the fun elsewhere." In this case, the programmer still provides intent and strategy for the bot. We know roughly how efficient the final algorithm should be, and roughly what the data model might be-- being able to get 90% of the code written in 30s-1min should free up more time to think about the system as a whole, I think. (Though this point has been beaten nearly to death, now that I ruminate on it.) At least in my own experience with Copilot it's been very convenient not having to worry about the finer details. More "should I model the problem this way?" and less "and now I bring in the inner for loop, then I overwrite the first part of the buffer up to index j...".