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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just used copilot for the first time. It made me a ton of call to action text and website page text for various service pages inwas creating for a home builder. It was surprisingly useful, of course I modified the output a bit but overall saved me a ton of time.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Copilot has cut my workload by about 40% freeing me up for personal projects

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copilot is only dangerous in the hands of people who couldn't program otherwise. I love it, it's helped a ton on tedious tasks and really is like a pair programmer

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's perfect for if you can distinguish between good and bad generations. Sometimes it tries to run on an empty text file in vscode and it just outputs an ingredients list lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copilot has cut my personal projects by about 40% freeing me up for work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

See, your mistake was telling your employer that you have free time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

i get copilot through github education and let me tell you the first time i put out a bunch of code related to one of my entities, i was floored. it's definitely not there to write your entire app but it saves so much time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

id argue it's more work to get chatgpt to suggest a CTA of "Download now" or "Learn more" than it is to type it by hand.