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Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?

I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away. I had to re-adapt to a life without Copilot, but it also gave me a chance to look back at how I used Copilot, and reflect - had Copilot actually been helpful to me? Copilot definitely feels a little bit magical when it works.

This article only talks about my own personal experiences, as you will be able to see, the kind of code I ask Copilot to write is probably a little bit atypical. Of course, as is the case with any software projects, you will be able to find many commonly seen components in picom: a logging system, string manipulation functions, sorting, etc. If GitHub's plan was to give me a year's free access of Copilot to get me addicted, then their plot has conclusively failed.

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