Yes
But on balance, I'd say that it has saved me many days worth of time in the last year, usually in the form of research and knowledge discovery
syndicatedjelly on Hacker News
saved me many days worth of time in the last year
In the thread “Ask HN: Best practices using AI as an experienced web dev”
Helped: Research and knowledge discovery for gray area problems.
Got in the way: Wasted hours when the copilot provided incorrect answers.
… No, I've wasted hours in the worst case with an answer that the copilot thought was correct, but was not. But on balance, I'd say that it has saved me many days worth of time in the last year, usually in the form of research and knowledge discovery. It's much faster to test out a bunch of potential solutions when the copilot is writing most of the code and I just tweak a few relevant parameters. …