It’s sometimes useful, often obnoxious, sometimes both.
It tends to shine on very blatantly obvious boilerplate stuff that is super easy, but tedious. You can be sloppy with your input and it will fix it up to be reasonable. Even then you’ve got to be careful, as sometimes what seems blatantly obvious still gets screwed up in weird ways. Even with mistakes, it’s sometimes easier to edit that going from scratch.
Using an enabled editor that looks at your activity and suggests little snippets is useful, but can be really annoying when it gets particularly insistent on a bad suggestion and keeps nagging you with “hey look at this, you want to do this right?”
Overall it’s merely mildly useful to me, as my career has been significantly about minimizing boilerplate with decent success. However for a lot of developers, there’s a ton of stupid boilerplate, owing to language design, obnoxiously verbose things, and inscrutable library documentation. I think that’s why some developers are scratching their heads wondering what the supposed big deal is and why some think it’s an amazing technology that has largely eliminated the need for them to manually code.
It’s sometimes useful, often obnoxious, sometimes both.
It tends to shine on very blatantly obvious boilerplate stuff that is super easy, but tedious. You can be sloppy with your input and it will fix it up to be reasonable. Even then you’ve got to be careful, as sometimes what seems blatantly obvious still gets screwed up in weird ways. Even with mistakes, it’s sometimes easier to edit that going from scratch.
Using an enabled editor that looks at your activity and suggests little snippets is useful, but can be really annoying when it gets particularly insistent on a bad suggestion and keeps nagging you with “hey look at this, you want to do this right?”
Overall it’s merely mildly useful to me, as my career has been significantly about minimizing boilerplate with decent success. However for a lot of developers, there’s a ton of stupid boilerplate, owing to language design, obnoxiously verbose things, and inscrutable library documentation. I think that’s why some developers are scratching their heads wondering what the supposed big deal is and why some think it’s an amazing technology that has largely eliminated the need for them to manually code.