It can easily yield 10 times efficiency gain in places where it's really appropriate
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10 times efficiency gain
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Helped: Generating interface glue, documentation, tests, and limited refactoring.
Got in the way: Generated interfaces for methods that did not exist.
… If you accept their unreliability and give them the right patterns and context to generate from, they can write a thousand lines of code in one go that look identical to what you would have written, and it takes 30 seconds to generate and a few minutes to review and test, compared to the half an hour at least that it would have taken otherwise. It can easily yield 10 times efficiency gain in places where it's really appropriate. That said, it's not perfect by any means. …