But at the same time, it saved us an hour or two of boilerplate setup and even dug up a somewhat smart way to validate the configuration for this very specific service
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saved us an hour or two of boilerplate setup
In the thread “TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT”, replying to this comment
Helped: Generated boilerplate setup and smart config validation logic.
Got in the way: Made silly mistakes like hard restarts and wrong file locations.
… And it had some funny mistakes in there - something called "Reload service XYZ" and it was actually a hard restart of the service, rather silly file locations and such, sure. But at the same time, it saved us an hour or two of boilerplate setup and even dug up a somewhat smart way to validate the configuration for this very specific service. This allowed us to jump more into understanding the service, tuning the config and setting up good tests for the setup instead of the same boring 20 resources in a config management. …