It's not really a time saver in that the amount of time I spend verifying and fixing or enhancing the result isn't really faster than me just writing it myself
criley2 on Hacker News
In the thread “OpenAI Releases Canvas”, replying to this comment
Helped: Brainstorming, iterating on ideas, small refactors, and adding tests using existing patterns.
Got in the way: Verifying and fixing results takes as long as writing the code manually.
… However, I do use copilot+vscode with claude 3.5 and the "Edit with Copilot feature" where it takes my open files, plus any other context I want to give it, to drive changes to my files, has been surprisingly good. It's not really a time saver in that the amount of time I spend verifying and fixing or enhancing the result isn't really faster than me just writing it myself, but I still find benefits for brainstorming, quickly iterating on alternate ideas and smaller refactors, and overcoming the "get started" hesitation on a seemingly complex change. I'm to the point where it can absolutely add tests to files using my existing patterns that are well done and rarely need feedback from me. …