The fundamental flaw with pitching CoPilot as a massive productivity boost is that its goal is to make it faster and easier to generate code.

As a programmer, you don't want to generate code. You want to solve problems; the less code involved the better. I don't want tools that will generate repetitive code, I want less repetition.

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ shows the problem. "Less mental effort on repetitive tasks", sure, but you should be trying to _prevent_ the repetition, not do more of it.

Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness

When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.

The GitHub Blog
@itamarst It does seems like it would be useful in for making small / simple functions which would otherwise take a bit of extra time to make.