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YesChatGPT, Aider · 21 Jan 2025

the time saved by prompting it with 2-3 lines and then getting code that normally takes me 30 minutes to convince myself that I really need to do that and then 10 minutes to write is now done in mere 20 seconds

tomw1808 on Hacker News

30 minutes to convince myself that I really need to do that and then 10 minutes to write is now done in mere 20 seconds

In the thread “What I've learned about writing AI apps so far”

Helped: High-level prompts for routine CRUD and boilerplate tasks.

… But it does work generally, maybe with occasional hiccups. But the time saved by prompting it with 2-3 lines and then getting code that normally takes me 30 minutes to convince myself that I really need to do that and then 10 minutes to write is now done in mere 20 seconds. Without much of a mental context switch and without being very taxing on the brain. …