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"I also encounter edge cases where they fail surprisingly badly multiple times per day. "

If 80% of the time they 10x my output, and the other 20% I can say "well they failed, I guess this one I have to do manually" - that's still an absolutely massive productivity boost.

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But they don’t 10x my output - they write some code for a problem I/you have already thought about. The hard part isn’t writing the code, it never has been. It’s always been solving and breaking down the problem.
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It's not the hard part, just the tedious part that takes the most time.
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Like when I was trying to find a physical store again with ChatGPT Pro 5.4 and asked it to prepare a list of candidates

I wonder if it was getting blocked on searches or something, and just didn't tell you.

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