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The actual most time-consuming parts of creating software (I think) is reading documentation for the APIs and libraries you're using. Probably the biggest productivity boost I get from my coding assistant is attributable to that.

e.g: MUI, typescript:

   // make the checkbox label appear before the checkbox.
Tab. Done. Delete the comment.

vs. about 2 minutes wading through the perfectly excellent but very verbose online documentation to find that I need to set the "labelPlacement" attribute to "start".

Or the tedious minutia that I am perfectly capable of doing, but it's time consuming and error-prone:

    // execute a SQL update
Tab tab tab tab .... Done, with all bindings and fields done, based on the structure that's passed as a parameter to the method, and the tables and fieldnames that were created in source code above the current line. (love that one).
parent rerdavies 1 year ago

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