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xp84yesterday at 11:46 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's funny how many people don't get that. It's like adding a pretty great senior or staff level engineer to sit on-call next to every developer and assist them, for basically free (I've never used any of the expensive stuff yet. Just things like Copilot, Grok Code in JetBrains, just asking Gemini to write bits of code for me).

If you hired a staff engineer to sit next to me, and I just had him/her write 100% of the code and never tried to understand it, that would be an unwise decision on my part and I'd have little room to complain about the times he made mistakes.