It being useful for the basic Google/Stack Overflow tasks makes it worth it for me. It saves me a lot of time being able to simply bring up the exact answer to

It being useful for the basic Google/Stack Overflow tasks makes it worth it for me. It saves me a lot of time being able to simply bring up the exact answer to whatever small "how-do-I-do-this-again" problem that fits into my code without rewriting it. You're right though that it isn't very useful for complex problems. Complex SQL queries in particular are hopeless. But I probably only spend 10-20% of my time on stuff where I really have to think about what I'm doing anyway. The autocompletion is the best part for me. When I start writing a function called `mapUsersToIds` or whatever and it autocompletes the 3 or 4 lines of code that I now don't need to write, that saves me a ton of time - I'd say I'm 30% more productive now that I don't need to spend time typing, even if the autocompleted code is exactly what I was going to write in the first place.