I think it's probably a net positive for me now—but it certainly wasn't always that way
lolinder on Hacker News
In the thread “Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers”
Helped: Resolving tedium and freeing brain for deeper questions.
Got in the way: Frequently subtly wrong in ways requiring senior-level tweaks.
… It's also frequently subtly wrong in ways that a newer dev wouldn't catch, which requires me to stop and tweak most things it generates in a way that a less experienced dev probably wouldn't know to. A few years into it I now have a pretty good sense for when to use Copilot and when not to—so I think it's probably a net positive for me now—but it certainly wasn't always that way. I also wonder if the possibly-decreased 'productivity' for more senior devs stems in part from the increase in 'productivity' from the juniors in the company. …