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Advanced tools are really useful when you get to the intermediate level. Then you can speed up the boring stuff and spend more time on advanced things and learning.

There is still value for beginners to do things the hard way for a while. Write the unit tests by hand, see how they all repeat the same pattern 90% of the time. Now you see the pattern and you can use LLM-assisted intellisense to speed it up.

And because you know how they're supposed to look like, you can see when the LLM goes off the rails.



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