I trialed GitHub Copilot and used ChatGPT for a bit, but recently I found myself using them less and less.
I’ve found them valuable when doing something new(at least to me), but for most of my day-to-day it seems to have lost it’s luster.
They’re very useful for the boilerplate stuff and it’s somewhat rewarding to type out 3-4 letters, hit tab and wind up with half a dozen lines in a bash script or config file.
They tend to get in the way more for complicated tasks, but I have learned to use them as a psychology trick: if I have writer’s block, I just let them pump out something wrong since it’s easier to critique a blob of text than a blank page.
if I have writer’s block, I just let them pump out something wrong since it’s easier to critique a blob of text than a blank page.
Yeah I mentioned this before while taking to a friend about it. Humans are much better at editing than coming up with stuff from scratch, so seeing the suggestion sometimes is helpful even if it’s wrong.
