Copilot writes a good chunk of my code now and I'm quietly worried I'm forgetting how to actually solve problems
It's genuinely made me faster, I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But I noticed last week I couldn't write a simple recursive function without autocomplete filling in the base case before I'd finished thinking about it myself, and I couldn't tell if my first instinct was even right. I still do LeetCode without it, but production code is a different story. Anyone else drawing a line somewhere, like "no suggestions during algorithm-heavy work" or something, or is this just what the job looks like now and I should stop being precious about it?
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AnonymousAnon I turn it off completely for anything DSA-adjacent now, on principle. For regular feature work I don't worry about it much since that's more about knowing the codebase than raw algorithm skill anyway. Different muscle.