Yes
overall it was productivity increase well worth the $20 or so cost
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Helped: Identifying breakage risks and acting as a rubber duck for design.
Got in the way: Could not perform refactoring in one go.
… Also, when I finished, I had AI review it and it caught a few typos that weren't compile errors before I even got to the point of testing it. None of these were things AI could do on their own, and definitely aren't areas I would have just blindly trusted some vibe coded output, but overall it was productivity increase well worth the $20 or so cost. (Now, one may argue that is the subsidized cost, and the unsubsidized cost would not have been worthwhile. …