[bluefirebrand]

> was it faster or slower than just writing everything manually in the first place?

My suspicion is that for any experienced dev this is slower every time

It is only faster when the person doing the work probably could not have built the thing themselves in the first place

[BinaryIgor]

That's also my intuition, but I would like to test and measure it against a real and non-obvious system use case; some day I will and will write about it :)