Yes
it has saved me many hours this week
adonovan on Hacker News
In 10m Gemini correctly diagnosed and then fixed a bug
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Specific instructions, critical design discussions, and hand review.
Got in the way: Error handling is a notable weakness.
… Error handling is a notable weakness. I review the code by hand after each step and often make changes, and I expect to go over the over the whole thing very carefully at the end, but it has saved me many hours this week. Perhaps more valuable than the code has been the critical design conversation, in which it mostly is fluent at the level of an experienced engineer and has been able explain, defend, and justify design choices quite coherently. …