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YesClaude · 23 Jul 2026

the LLM correctly diagnosed in minutes with links to relevant documentation

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days to chase down

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Helped: Finding relevant documentation and zeroing in on the specific code issue.

… said "whatever"; new Hibernate changed the persistence code so in this situation it calls `merge` instead of `save` (update rather than create AFAICT); there was no existing entity with the generated ID (of course, it's a new entity!); it fails. While my hypothesis was broadly right, that _particular_ issue would've taken me days to chase down -- but the LLM correctly diagnosed in minutes with links to relevant documentation. I vaguely hate LLMs, but this one saved me from a days long side quest that would've held up delivering the actual value of the project. …