Yes
GPT-4 and Copilot absolutly makes me more productive as a programmer, wiring all the tests, getting maybe 80% of them right and then I fix them up
malux85 on Hacker News
80% of them right
In the thread “ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job”, replying to this comment
Helped: Automating trivial bits and wiring tests to free up energy for hard problems.
Got in the way: Making hilariously wrong mistakes about once or twice a day.
I get what you're saying about 10 lines of well-tested vs 10,000 lines of crud, but this hyperbole is also a false dichotomy. GPT-4 and Copilot absolutly makes me more productive as a programmer, wiring all the tests, getting maybe 80% of them right and then I fix them up. I am not producing 10,000 lines of crud, but I AM producing 1000 lines of test-covered code, I'm doing the hard bits, and the AIs are doing the menial parts. …