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With all due respect, but if you actually wasted hours (multiple) each (!) day on those issues, then yeah, I can fully believe that AI assisted coding 10 or even 100x'd you.

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I uncharitably snarked that AI lets the 0.05X programmers become 0.2X ones, but reading this stuff makes me feel like I was too charitable.

I've never had problems with any of those things after I learned what a code editor was.

Yep, it may be an issue in notepad, which does not have helper like syntax highlighting, auto indent, and line numbers. But I started with IDLE which has all those things. So my next editor was notepad++ and codeblock.

emacs + adhd. the squiggly lines and autocomplete stuff were more distracting than linter/compile errors. rock and a hard place, and ai solved it.

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