Mixed
In my experience it only works well in boilerplate kind of situations where most code is copy/paste work anyhow
jamala1 on Hacker News
increases my work efficiency by more than 5%
In the thread “GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month”, replying to this comment
Helped: Reducing strain on hands and handling boilerplate copy/paste work.
Got in the way: Performance drops when code gets complicated and it has become slow.
Having used Copilot for a year now I very much doubt this figure. In my experience it only works well in boilerplate kind of situations where most code is copy/paste work anyhow. As soon as the code gets a little complicated it stops working well. …