Back then I was a dialup ISP I used to host network games of Quake 1 with my customers. At the peak though we found the Xylogics Remote Annex couldn't handle it, and it rebooted mid game.
I agree that for some coding things it's handy and saves time. It wrote me a WordPress plugin for an abandoned radio streaming plugin so I could get usable stats. It would have taken me a long time to write the SQL and php code by hand, for something I'll likely never do again.
It didn't get it entirely right first time though.
Tender Love & Care for your tele.