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Copilot is most useful for automating boring routine work, where I can quickly catch and correct its mistakes
jltsiren on Hacker News
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Helped: Automating boring routine work where mistakes are easy to catch.
Got in the way: Making mistakes on difficult parts or when user lacks knowledge.
… It can usually make useful and accurate suggestions, sometimes even remarkably so, but it also makes stupid mistakes all the time. Copilot is most useful for automating boring routine work, where I can quickly catch and correct its mistakes. It's far less useful for the difficult parts, or when I don't know what I'm doing, because the mistakes it makes are less obvious to me.