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Just imagine how many little code snippets you used (at least I did) to make my life easier and faster

A script which parses jaon for a specific key or transforming a table from y to z.

Now everyone has this available to them.

It's great already!

But those are the low hanging fruit that help me avoid rusting skills… and this is a common phenomenon on automation: you destroy the first rungs on the experience ladder, that no one wants to do but are essential to develop foundational skills.

That's a pretty good point. I'm looking at this from the perspective of having done this for over a decade. All that stuff feels like a waste of time to me now. Even as I was using ChatGPT for my fake data, I was thinking to myself "this is like having a junior dev assisting me". So yeah, those little micro tasks that build muscle memory are going to vanish.

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