Mixed
I can keep prompting to refine the code down to something closer to what I want, but at that point it would have just been faster to write the thing myself
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Helped: Writing scripts, recalling commands, and debugging error messages.
Got in the way: Main codebase output was convoluted; refining took longer than writing manually.
… It can get me in the ballpark of what I want, but it often does weird convoluted shit on the first pass. I can keep prompting to refine the code down to something closer to what I want, but at that point it would have just been faster to write the thing myself. I kind of like LLMs for learning new languages. …