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YesCopilot, ChatGPT · 2 Jun 2025

That being said copilot and chatgpt have been a 40% productivity boost at least

schindlabua on Hacker News

40% productivity boost

In the thread “The rise of judgement over technical skill”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing tight types, segregating side effects, and stubbing function heads.

Got in the way: Letting AI make changes to 150 files with cross-concerns.

… No way I'm letting the AI make changes to 150 files with tons of cross-concerns when I don't even fully understand it all myself unless I dig into the code. That being said copilot and chatgpt have been a 40% productivity boost at least. I just write types that are as tightly fitting as possible, and segregate code based on what side effects are going to happen, stub a few function heads and let the LLM fill in the gaps. …