i have a rule, since working with jetbrains junie llm codining agent
if it spends an hour, trying three times to do something, i probably can do it in 10 minutes. already have had this happen twice. it seems to be turning into an operational policy.
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to explain this, the logs of junie often help me figure out how to solve the problem, and then i get clarity about how to to actually write the code, and that's the reason why i have succeeded at quickly, because the AI tried a dozen ways to not succeed