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[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

any senior carpenter that is doing the easy work has a jig they custom built to do it in a tenth the time. same for a dev. templates in your ide, the use of specific libraries that make developing tests 10x faster than a normal junit test. Whatever it is, if you're a dev with decades of experience and you haven't gotten to the point that the 'grunt work' isn't a few seconds of time then you're not a good dev, you're a shit dev who sat on their ass for decades doing nothing.

And now AI has given you the chance to be even better at that, sitting on your ass doing nothing.