rm082e
Gold Member
The best use case I've seen is as a glorified notes taker for meetings.
Yep. This is what we've found at the small company I work for using Fireflies.
My developers (5 senior, older guys who've been doing this for decades) all basically said the same thing about GitHub Copilot: "It's decent at shortening the loop of googling, taking a stab at putting something together, and giving me a starting place that can save time I would have spent. I can't often use exactly what it puts out, but it gets in the ball park. Sometimes it gives me ideas and approaches I wouldn't have thought of on my own."
If over the course of a month it can save one developer a couple of hours of time, that's worth the cost of the license to me at the current price. If they go jacking the price through the roof, we'd have to reassess if it's still worth it. As a manager, I'm looking at it purely as a tool to enable them to work with less stress (reduce grind), or to help them be more efficient so we can get more work done. Thankfully I'm at a small company where the BS shell game of "KPIs go up and to the right" isn't a problem.
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