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Using CoPilot autocompletion roughly doubles my productivity while cutting my code quality by 10%
ekidd on Hacker News
roughly doubles my productivity while cutting my code quality by 10%
In the thread “After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain”, replying to this comment
Helped: Autocompletion for repetitive tasks and Deep Research for library lookups.
Got in the way: Claude Code requires managing it like an over-caffeinated intern.
… I have some grey hair and I've been programming since I was a kid. Using CoPilot autocompletion roughly doubles my productivity while cutting my code quality by 10%. This happens because I can see issues in autocompleted code far faster than I can type, thanks to years of reading code and reviewing other people's code. …