It does seem to benefit cranking thru a list of smallish features/fixes rapidly, but even 4.5 or 4.6 seem to get stuck in weird dead ends rarely enough that I'm not expecting it, but often enough to be super annoying
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Helped: Writing code in unfamiliar languages and analyzing large codebases for specific questions.
Got in the way: Getting stuck in dead ends and failing to compile large Java migration projects.
… Analysing large code bases for specific questions (not as accurate on "give me an overall summary" type questions - that one weird thing next to 19 normal things doesn't stick in its craw as much as for a cranky human programmer. It does seem to benefit cranking thru a list of smallish features/fixes rapidly, but even 4.5 or 4.6 seem to get stuck in weird dead ends rarely enough that I'm not expecting it, but often enough to be super annoying. I've been playing around with Gas Town swarming a large scale Java migration project, and its been N declarations of victory and still mvn test isn't even compiling. …