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NoCopilot · 10 Jun 2024

I turned off the Copilot integration months ago, when I realized that the effort of understanding and/or dismissing its constant kibitzing was adding more friction on net to my process than its occasions of usefulness alleviated

throwanem on Hacker News

accepted about 27% of suggestions

In the thread “AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Constant nagging broke flow; suggestions were trivial or subtly wrong.

… I'm sure it's entirely sound, though, and like all behavioral science in no sense a matter of projection, conjecture, interpretation, or assumption. I turned off the Copilot integration months ago, when I realized that the effort of understanding and/or dismissing its constant kibitzing was adding more friction on net to my process than its occasions of usefulness alleviated. I do still use LLMs as part of my work, but in a "peer consultant" role, via a chat model and a separate terminal. …