Agree entirely with your assessment. I find Copilot / ChatGPT to have varying degrees of utility, but neither tool ever makes me less productive. To your point, they do generally make me more productive, as they can help me debug / explain errors and code I'm unfamiliar with way better than Google can, assist in a new problem space and do some basic introductory scaffolding, and they help me write boring ass code more quickly (e.g. lots of unit tests with different conditions). Copilot especially does a great job at understanding the context of what I'm working on.. suggesting imports or autocompleting entire test cases based on my test description string.

It isn't quite "read-my-mind" level _yet_.. but it did feel magical for a while until I got used to it as part of my workflow.