Yes
it's really useful to get me started, and I can finish it much more easily from what the AI gives me than if I started from scratch
brabel on Hacker News
In the thread “How I program with LLMs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Getting started, finishing code, generating tests, and answering questions without StackOverflow.
… I have to admit that when my free quota from GitHub Copilot ran out (I had already run out of Jetbrains AI as well!! Our company will start paying for some service as the trials have been very successful), I had a slight bad feeling as my experience was very similar to OP: it's really useful to get me started, and I can finish it much more easily from what the AI gives me than if I started from scratch. Sometimes it just fills in boilerplate, other times it actually tells me which functions to call on an unfamiliar API. …