I have been an AI denier for the past 2 years. I genuinely wanted to try it out but the experience I got from Copilot in early 2023 was just terrible. I have been using ChatGPT for some programming questions for all that time, but it was making mistakes and lack of editor integration did not seem like it would make me more productive.
Thanks to this thread I have signed up again for Copilot and I am blown away. I think this easily makes me 2x productive when doing implementation work. It does not make silly mistakes anymore and it's just faster to have it write a block of code than doing it myself.
And the experience is more of an augmentation than replacement. I don't have to let it run wild. I'm using it locally and refactor its output if needed to match my code quality standards.
I am as much concerned (job market) as I am excited (what I will be able to build myself).
Thanks to this thread I have signed up again for Copilot and I am blown away. I think this easily makes me 2x productive when doing implementation work. It does not make silly mistakes anymore and it's just faster to have it write a block of code than doing it myself.
And the experience is more of an augmentation than replacement. I don't have to let it run wild. I'm using it locally and refactor its output if needed to match my code quality standards.
I am as much concerned (job market) as I am excited (what I will be able to build myself).