Ha!  And I bet your friend was already a pretty adept dev.  For someone like me, who's been out of the game for a decade, it is a fucking godsend -- 10x, for real, no lie, no exaggeration.  I imagine that will asymptote as I stay in the game, but son of a bitch, it's science fiction and people are blase about it.

To say nothing of the other ways that I use it that are basically infinitely better because they are taking the place of nothing.  But whatevs, I'm happy if fewer people are competing with me becoming even better at the things that I'm already good at.  I'll eat that pie, too :)

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I had a friend recently say, "it makes me, maybe, 50% more productive but it's not that big of a deal." I just laughed. 

I think the "AI is hype" crowd are debating the proximity of the singularity as if they are worthy of debating it.                                                                                                           