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YesCopilot, Gemini · 22 Aug 2025

It's definitely faster (20 mins to fire up my computer, write the code, push the PR vs. 5 mins to create the GitHub issue, assign to Copilot, review, and merge)

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20 mins to fire up my computer, write the code, push the PR vs. 5 mins to create the GitHub issue, assign to Copilot, review, and merge

In the thread “My development team costs $41.73 a month”, replying to this comment

Helped: Speed on small tasks and bug fixes.

Got in the way: Reviewing more code makes development more erratic.

… And it's allowed me to fix bugs and add small features I wouldn't have bothered to in the past. It's definitely faster (20 mins to fire up my computer, write the code, push the PR vs. 5 mins to create the GitHub issue, assign to Copilot, review, and merge). Case in point: I'm currently adding change-data-capture to rqlite. …