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nurumaik on May 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?

>It gets things wrong enough that I have to manually check everything it does and correct it

Thing is, reading code is way faster than writing code

deely3 on May 13, 2024 [–]

Huh, for me its always vice versa.

When I'm not sure in the someones code I have to double or triple check it be sure that I understand it correctly and to verify that there no somehow hidden missed steps or side effects.

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