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If you had written it by hand would the verification process been as time consuming?

i.e. overall including the time spent verifying that it was correct, do you consider it a net win?

I was already including my own time spent verifying the output, which I mostly did right away as the code was being generated (approving or rejecting each edit).

And the separate security review would have been required either way.

So yes, it saved time.

Did you wrote it from scratch to compare? There's an old motto devs use all the time, you know. Measure first, don't guess. How do you know it would not have took you the same time or less to write the program if it was you? Or if for example, if you were using the AI to write the boilerplate for you while you focused on the core of coding? Or using it as a tab completor assistant instead of it being an agent? Saying it saved you time is easy when you don't have the data to back it up, it's easier than thinking that maybe, maybe this was not that good of an use of your time.

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