[kixxauth]

Copilot may be one of the most valuable early use cases for chat AI.

I've been brushing off AI as overhyped, but this is very compelling. I believe the real crux of software engineering is thinking about the problem and organizing solutions today which can be changed/improved/iterated in the future. Programmers too often overweight the time it takes to type things (using short variable & function names or creating terse 1 liners). But if our objective is to make code easy to change/improve/iterate in the future, then it needs to be readable now.

The nice autocomplete features in most IDEs have been a huge win to productivity along with Google search. I think chat AI could be an order of magnitude improvement.

[brookst]

Copilot may be amazing, but I am having a hard time adapting. Writing code I'm in flow, and reviewing/debugging I'm in flow, but the constant appearance of suggestions that I need to evaluate for keep / fix / discard while writing is messing with my focus.

This might just be the equivalent of the old guy complaining that typewriters are better than word processors.

[revskill]

Agree. At least it could help me read the library code and automate some tasks for me, like how to get some things from base class from library .