Yes
If I had to quantify it, I'd probably give it a 5-10% increase in productivity
insane_dreamer on Hacker News
5-10% increase in productivity
In the thread “Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers”, replying to this comment
Helped: Specific questions, boilerplate, documentation search, and unfamiliar frameworks.
Got in the way: Main product development due to custom framework and non-existent method suggestions.
… Some people have said it's good at writing unit tests but I have not found that to be the case (at least not the right kind of unit tests). If I had to quantify it, I'd probably give it a 5-10% increase in productivity. Much less than I get from using a full featured IDE like PyCharm over coding in Notepad, or a really good git client over typing the git commands in the CLI. …