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by btreecat 487 days ago
While I have seen similar (engineer struggle to get claud to write some TF that could have been done in a few min) I also have experienced the opposite.

I was attempting to put together some basic statistics for my oncall shift, so I downloaded the CSV from our system and used DuckDB to inspect. I had never used DuckDB before so using an LLM to help me refine my queries was great. Even with a few turds of a reply it still mostly helped save time.

Knowing when to stop and try a different approach is the same underlying skill that some devs don't exercise and others do.