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"I also encounter edge cases where they fail surprisingly badly multiple times per day. "

If 80% of the time they 10x my output, and the other 20% I can say "well they failed, I guess this one I have to do manually" - that's still an absolutely massive productivity boost.

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But they don’t 10x my output - they write some code for a problem I/you have already thought about. The hard part isn’t writing the code, it never has been. It’s always been solving and breaking down the problem.

It's not the hard part, just the tedious part that takes the most time.

I can typically type faster than I can think.

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