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YesChatGPT · 3 Jun 2025

That is the first ever coding question I asked an LLM and it literally saved me days of trial and error for something where my added value is next to zero

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saved me days of trial and error

In the thread “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”, replying to this comment

Helped: Leveraging existing implementations for low-level API boilerplate and data conversion.

… And make something that just works. That is the first ever coding question I asked an LLM and it literally saved me days of trial and error for something where my added value is next to zero. Similarly I use LLMs a lot for small tasks that are in fact fairly difficult, and that don’t add any value to the solution. …