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YesCopilot · 8 Nov 2023

Long and short is it enabled a fair-to-middling dev to rapidly knock-up and document something in a relatively unfamiliar framework that was useful to his org

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In the thread “Ask HN: How do you keep up with advances in AI-assisted programming techniques?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Boilerplate, docstrings, and chat for unfamiliar framework issues.

Got in the way: Complex data analysis and fiddly feature implementation.

… Like throwing some vanilla HTML at it and asking for some CSS to layout and format in a particular way. Long and short is it enabled a fair-to-middling dev to rapidly knock-up and document something in a relatively unfamiliar framework that was useful to his org. In your case, you might find you have more truck with it when exploring something new or less familiar.