I have at this point wasted several orders of magnitudes more time trying to get AIs to spit out anything usable than if I had just sat down and done things myself

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saves me 20 minutes of very tedious work

In the thread “Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane”, replying to this comment

Helped: Extracting typedefs from JSON blobs and writing quick throwaway scripts.

Got in the way: Handling any complexity; output was often wrong or unusable.