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YesCopilot · 25 Jul 2023

I've been using Github Copilot for about six months for my own work and it has fundamentally changed how I write code

bastawhiz on Hacker News

A one-off script that took me 30 minutes to write previously now takes me maybe a minute on a bad day.

In the thread “What we know about LLMs”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing chunky comments explaining intent for routine scripts and marketing copy.

… I'll say that I pretty firmly disagree with this. I've been using Github Copilot for about six months for my own work and it has fundamentally changed how I write code. Ignoring the ethics of Copilot, if I just need to read a file with some data, parse it, and render that data on screen, Copilot just _does_ most of that for me. …