Mostly copilot is a nice autocomplete. Sometimes it writes what I would write and then I don’t have to type it out. Sometimes it helps when I’m writing code i

Mostly copilot is a nice autocomplete. Sometimes it writes what I would write and then I don’t have to type it out. Sometimes it helps when I’m writing code in a domain I don’t know. It can pull in a library function I wasn’t aware of for example. It isn’t always right and sometimes hallucinates, but usually static analysis notifies me when the library function doesn’t exist or the signature is wrong, and then I have to go back and do the work I was going to have to do anyways. The key I think is that most software isn’t writing unique code. We might write little nuggets of unique code and then glue it together with a ton of boilerplate. And LLMs are great at boilerplate.