I've found Copilot pretty good at removing some tedium, like it'll write docstrings pretty well most of the time, but it does almost nothing to alleviate the actual mental labour of software engineering
As it happens, I think co-pilot is a pretty poor user experience, because it's essentially just an autocomplete, which doesn't really help me all that much, and often gets in my way. I like using Cursor with the autocomplete turned off. It gives you the option to highlight a bit of text and either refactor it with a prompt, or ask a question about it in a side chat window. That puts me in the driver seat, so to speak, so I (the user) can reach out to AI when I want to.