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YesChatGPT · 14 Nov 2023

I had a solution (with tests) in under half an hour when doing it all myself would've taken the afternoon

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solution in under half an hour vs afternoon

In the thread “A coder considers the waning days of the craft”, replying to this comment

Helped: Offloading routine tasks like protocol rewrites and scripts.

… I just gave ChatGPT the original source and the protocol spec and spent 10 minutes walking it through the problem. I had a solution (with tests) in under half an hour when doing it all myself would've taken the afternoon. Then I went back to working on the actual hard stuff that my human brain was needed to solve. …