Mixed
I've also seen it make a complete mess of my codebase anytime I try to build something larger
conductr on Hacker News
In the thread “I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simple tasks like building websites, generating SQL, and debugging.
Got in the way: Building larger features resulted in messy code requiring manual refactoring.
… It's pretty much replaced StackOverflow for helping me debug things or look up how to do something that I know is already solved somewhere and I don't want to reinvent. But, I've also seen it make a complete mess of my codebase anytime I try to build something larger. It might technically give me a working widget after some vibe coding, but I'm probably going to have to clean the whole thing up manually and refactor some of it. …