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MixedCopilot · 24 Sep 2024

It was wrong, but gave me an idea, basically saving me at least 45 minutes

orwin on Hacker News

saving me at least 45 minutes

In the thread “Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm”, replying to this comment

Helped: Rubber ducking for concurrency issues and generating good test cases.

Got in the way: Writing anything harder than HTML forms from scratch.

… They _are_ a great rubber duck though, today i had a concurrency issue and asked windows copilot for solutions. It was wrong, but gave me an idea, basically saving me at least 45 minutes. Github copilot is a great autocomplete, saving me some time too, but i don't think it can make me twice as effective as a coder. …