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Being able to get answers to questions that would normally break me out of flow mode by simply Option + C’ing to open up a New Chat has been a productivity boost for me
wanderingbit on Hacker News
speed with which I fix those bugs and get to a final edit of my code is 30% or 40% faster
In the thread “Researchers seeing little evidence of benefit from co pilots”
Helped: Quick answers and snippets maintain flow; first-pass comments lower activation energy.
This finding bewilders me, because my copilot (I use Sourcegraph’s Cody) has become an essential part of my dev productivity toolset. Being able to get answers to questions that would normally break me out of flow mode by simply Option + C’ing to open up a New Chat has been a productivity boost for me. Getting it to give me little snippets of code that I can use helps keep me in flow mode. …