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I've found Copilot pretty good at removing some tedium, like it'll write docstrings pretty well most of the time, but it does almost nothing to alleviate the ac
by moolcool 2y ago
I've found Copilot pretty good at removing some tedium, like it'll write docstrings pretty well most of the time, but it does almost nothing to alleviate the actual mental labour of software engineering
- jacobsenscott 2y agoRemoving the tedium frees your brain up to focus on the interesting parts of the problem. The "actual mental labor" is the fun part. So I like that.
- danielvaughn 2y agoYeah this has been my experience. I bucket my work largely into two categories - "creative work" and "toil". I don't want or need AI to replace my creative work, but the more it can handle toil for me, the better. As it happens, I think co-pilot is a pretty poor user experience, because it's essentially just an autocomplete, which doesn't really help me all that much, and often gets in my way. I like using Cursor with the autocomplete turned off. It gives you the option to highlight a bit of text and either refactor it with a prompt, or ask a question about it in a side chat window. That puts me in the driver seat, so to speak, so I (the user) can reach out to AI when I want to.