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The Paradox of Waiting for AI to Code: How to Stay Productive While Your Digital Assistant Works

AI coding assistants promised to make us faster. They delivered. Now we face a problem nobody anticipated: what do you do while waiting for the AI to finish generating 500 lines of code? The irony is thick. We automated coding to save time, and now we're stuck watching progress b

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