Yes
In an hour you can craft a production ready 100 loc solution, with a full complement of tests, to something that might otherwise take a half day
brandall10 on Hacker News
Easy 2-5x speedup depending on what you're doing.
In the thread “Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers”, replying to this comment
Helped: Discrete context control and superior model ability.
Got in the way: Copilot rarely produces working larger chunks.
… Easy 2-5x speedup depending on what you're doing. In an hour you can craft a production ready 100 loc solution, with a full complement of tests, to something that might otherwise take a half day. I say this as someone with 26 yoe, having worked in principal/staff/lead roles since 2012. …