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YesCopilot · 4 Feb 2025

The speed boost and removal of friction lets me work on more stacks and, consequently, lead a much bigger span of related projects

t8sr on Hacker News

In the thread “How I use LLMs as a staff engineer”

Helped: Context switching between languages and simple code transformations.

Got in the way: Code review, spotting logic errors, and explaining complex systems.

… I still get a lot of use out of Copilot. The speed boost and removal of friction lets me work on more stacks and, consequently, lead a much bigger span of related projects. Instead of explaining how to do something to a junior engineer, I can often just do it myself. …