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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 22, 2026

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My job is mostly just routine ports of legacy code into a new framework, with a few minor architectural decisions thrown in here and there. It took me some time to set up sufficiently exact instructions, but by now GPT-5.4 can do it pretty well. The end result isn't any worse or better than if I had done it myself (which makes sense, since I'm telling the copilot to utilize my own methodology), and it's just moderately faster, but notably it can do it while I'm off doing something else, with a handful of corrections on the way.

I don't like it, but it looks like it can do my job, at least.