If I had had to actually write that code myself, it would have taken me all day and maybe more, mostly because I would have had to research a lot of things first
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all day and maybe more
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Helped: Detailed 44-line request specifying exact XML paths and output structure.
Got in the way: Initial code interpretation mistakes required manual corrections and specific code references.
… Similarly, by simply doing what I wrote above, at the start telling the AI to not do anything but to instead give me a Python script, and similar instructions, I got a several hundred lines ling Python script that processed my collected DESADV EDI messages in XML format ("Process a folder of DESADV XML files and generate an Excel report.") If I had had to actually write that code myself, it would have taken me all day and maybe more, mostly because I would have had to research a lot of things first. I'm not exactly parsing various format EDI messages every day after all. …