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by wruza 959 days ago
I only used it once to create a toy browser extension, but I believe it extrapolates.

The key thing it allowed me to do was to skip the initial “how to, even” learning curve. It wrote a manifest and html+js, from which I got that there are permissions. Then I asked again about an extension with a specific permission.

This skipped an hour of learning what a manifest is, how to use it and so on. I’d learn it faster, but with modern google search you have to skim through and close a few bunches of “tutorials”, before you find one that is less full of bs than usual. I couldn’t search directly for a manifest format because I didn’t know it’s a thing.

This is a great value for adjacent areas I’m not specializing in.