Overall, I'd guess that CoPilot allows me to produce twice as much code at 90-95% of the quality
ekidd on Hacker News
twice as much code at 90-95% of the quality
In the thread “RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo”
Helped: Writing test code and non-trivial parser/type inference code quickly.
Got in the way: Code is slightly worse; fewer tiny functions, more related code in one place.
… And I'm not talking about generic boilerplate here: CoPilot can write non-trivial parser or type inference code that relies heavily on internal project APIs that do not exist outside my project. Overall, I'd guess that CoPilot allows me to produce twice as much code at 90-95% of the quality. Which since we're talking about open source projects that I maintain in my spare time (and that were painfully over-engineered to begin with), is probably a decent tradeoff.