Yes
It would have required 2-3x more time researching how to do exactly what I needed, which I did with Copilot and ChatGPT in ~1 hr
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2-3x more time researching... in ~1 hr
In the thread “Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Deploying a Flask app with a simple HTML frontend.
Got in the way: Core deep learning research tasks and data cleaning.
… But easy != free. It would have required 2-3x more time researching how to do exactly what I needed, which I did with Copilot and ChatGPT in ~1 hr.