On average, still faster than doing everything manually and sometimes overlooks obvious things, but other times finds edge cases or knows syntax I might not
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Helped: Planning phase, switching models, and context files like AI.md.
Got in the way: Inline code in Go and high token costs.
… a particular model does keep messing up, switching over to another and explaining what the first one was doing wrong can help get rid of that spiraling, other times I just have to write all the code myself anyways because I have something different in mind, sometimes stopping it in the middle of editing a file and providing additional instructions. On average, still faster than doing everything manually and sometimes overlooks obvious things, but other times finds edge cases or knows syntax I might not. Obviously I use a far simpler workflow for one off data transformations or knocking out Bash scripts etc. …