Mixed
It's significantly better than copy pasting
jemmyw on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?”
Helped: Searching and planning in unfamiliar codebase areas.
Got in the way: Writing code is hit and miss.
I've been using cline and RooCode with vscode. It's significantly better than copy pasting. I work in a quite large codebase that has several different areas, and these AI tools are really good when I get a task in an area I'm not very familiar with, they'll perform searches and write a plan telling me where to start. …