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For me it’s github copilot. It produces bad code frequently and often code that looks good at a glance, but is bad. So I treat the output with extreme prejudice. However, I think it saves me a few hours a month on average. Maybe not 100 in a year, but in two or three years, certainly. It saves me much more time than my IDE does (JetBrains + vscode).


JetBrain's rename functionality might save you that much, when it needs to touch lots of places, compared to a more naive rename.


Their rename functionality definitely saves me time, but I’d guess maybe only about half an hour per month on average.

It saves you more in stronger typed languages and if you rename things across files a lot. I work on smaller code bases.




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