Yes
I think it really helped and made the whole process go much faster
joshstrange on Hacker News
30-60min down to <5min
In the thread “When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell”
Helped: Speed on small scripts and UI generation; auto git commit for rollback.
Got in the way: Struggles with new files, moving massive chunks, and simple syntax errors.
… I spent a few nights last week using LLMs to help build a chrome extension to match my Amazon transactions with my YNAB transactions for the purpose of updating the memo field in YNAB with the item names I bought from Amazon to speed up my categorization and serve as history of what I bought (previously I did this whole process manually). I think it really helped and made the whole process go much faster. It really excels (for me) in UI. …