Yes
Getting a jr to do the work would have been more frustrating and cost 100x more
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cost 100x more
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Helped: Doing grunt work and bug fixing on a large library.
… Granted I'm not one to produce thousands of lines per month(systems engineer, mostly bug fixing and extending a large library which sits on top of proprietary HW), but I think my SOTA model use for the period is under $200. Getting a jr to do the work would have been more frustrating and cost 100x more. Sure, it would have been in society's interests to train a junior dev, I'm not arguing against external benefits to it. …