Not the parent but I've had this happen when debugging for sure. Sometimes I ask Claude Code to help me debug something and it makes a wrong assumption and just churns in circles burning tokens. While it's doing that I realize the problem and fix it.
..but then you ignore all other times CC got it right, and statistically I would put my bets CC does it right (or Codex (or PI)) than you would, and more often is right than tis not.
besides it is a system that you query, it responds. I'm sure your dbs are not always 'right' and particularly when you as the wrong questions.
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Sometimes debuggind is faster indeed, and making small very focused changes too.
But during feature development? Not possible. And I consider myself a very fast developer