For developers, however, it’s been giving so many terrible results that it’s not really been too different than simply using a regular search engine
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Helped: Automating workflows for non-developers and technically inclined employees.
Got in the way: Providing accurate code logic and handling JSON for developers.
… On one hand it’s been a powerful tool for non-developers, and it’s helped a lot of our more technically inclined employees to automate part of their workflows (and maintain the automation on their own) in a way that no “no-code” solution has ever done before. For developers, however, it’s been giving so many terrible results that it’s not really been too different than simply using a regular search engine. Sometimes it’s much faster, but other times the lack of “metadata” and “other opinions” like you may find on a site like StackOverflow through time stamps and comments have made it significantly slower. …