But they're quite a bit faster than I write by hand, and if I iterate with the coding tools I can get to implementations that are as good as I would write by hand, and a lot faster

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Helped: Speed on routine work and adding features I couldn't do alone.

Got in the way: Initial code quality was worse than my hand-written code.