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YesCopilot · 22 Feb 2024

It's good for simple problems or boilerplate, not great for more complex problems

mtriassi on Hacker News

roughly a 5-10% increase in productivity

In the thread “Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming”, replying to this comment

Helped: Simple problems and boilerplate code generation.

Got in the way: Complex problems where the tool is not great.

… Assuming we're right about that, its an easy sell when we account for what our internal hourly rate is. we also found the same as the OP, It's good for simple problems or boilerplate, not great for more complex problems.