Yes
Copilot boosts my productivity by 25-30%, easily, by removing many of these "excuses"
mpalmer on Hacker News
25-30%
In the thread “Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming”, replying to this comment
Helped: Removing distractions and shortening the gap between thought and code.
… It feels like my brain will take the most insignificant excuse to start paying attention to something else. Copilot boosts my productivity by 25-30%, easily, by removing many of these "excuses". I am an experienced programmer, but sometimes I'll have a clear intention in my head of what I want to do, and the knowledge/experience of what code would accomplish that thing, and I still back away from it and start looking at something else, whether work, social media, whatever. …