It would have taken me much longer to write on my own so I'm very grateful I could save so much time
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Helped: Providing specs and ideas for small utility scripts.
Got in the way: Codesurf choked on messy existing code.
… I ended up doing a bit of work on the script it gave me since I didn't trust it completely or knew if I could even get it to expand on the work properly. It would have taken me much longer to write on my own so I'm very grateful I could save so much time. Just last week, I had another idea for a different debug tool and did the same process (here's my idea, here's the specs, go) and after a few rounds of "can you add this next?", I had another quality tool ready to go with absolutely no touch-up work needed on my end. …