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Article author here. I carefully reviewed and tested the ChatGPT scripts before executing them. It helped me save a lot of time manually writing these scripts!

I wouldn't say I lack technical expertise in this area, I'm just trying to use my time as efficiently as possible.

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Genuinely curious: How much time would you say you saved prompting for and then carefully reviewing and testing those scripts for bugs, versus writing them yourself?

And for context what's the average line count we're talking about here? Tens of lines? Hundreds?

I'd estimate it that it saved me a couple of hours tops. They were simple, self-contained scripts with at most 150 LOC.

Interesting! Thanks for the insight!

Glad to see you active here in the comments. Apologies if my comment comes off harshly, my intent is not to tear you down. I think there is a lot of gray space when it comes to using LLMs for generating code. Your usage here is certainly interesting, and I appreciate the additional context and discussion you’ve been providing.

No worries at all! I agree that there's probably lots of people blindly copying and running code from LLMs without any reflection. Just like it often happened with StackOverflow snippets before ChatGPT (to the point it became a meme). I'm definitely not one of them.

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