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My experience is that while it's useful for creating code from scratch it's pretty alright if you give it a script and ask it to modify it to do something else.
For instance I have a cron job that runs every 15min and attempts to extract .rar files in a folder and email me if it fails to extract. Problem is if something does go wrong it emails me every 15minutes until I fix it. This is especially annoying if its stuck copying a rar at 99%.
I asked deepseek to store failed file names in a file and have the script ignore those files for an increasing amount of time for each failure. It did a pretty good job, although it changed the name of a variable halfway through (easy fix) and added a comment saying it fixed a typo despite changing nothing about that line. I probably probably would have written almost identical code but it definitely saved me time and effort