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by vrighter 55 days ago
I have never had it automate any tedium for me. Because if I didn't write it, I need to scrutinize all of it, but without the benefit of a prebuilt mental model. Reading through tons of similar looking code (because it's supposed to automate boilerplate) looking for subtle mistakes is mind numbingly boring. It's like looking at a wall full of periods in font size 8, and trying to find the one comma.
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_Writing_ tons of similar looking code is equally error prone.

Only a complete psycho doesn't copy-paste code when doing something thats 90% repetitive.

Ironically our AI PR review has caught a bunch of those during unrelated commits :D