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by viraptor 645 days ago
It depends how often you do a thing. It's ok to write things from scratch a few times. But if you often ask about the same database which involves dumping a long schema and including extra context for the information in it, you don't want to write it more than once. Or if you often ask for specific things like visualisation of data, but you don't want to manually explain each time that you want to use polars and pyplot and typed python and get timing around longer running functions and ...

If you're doing ad-hoc things, yeah, just ask. If not, prompt management saves lots of time.