Needless to say, I did use some AI assistance to help write the code. To some extent, I view the AI assistance as psychological support - it is much easier to convince myself to spend time coding when I know that, in addition to my older methods of debugging and googling, I also have the AI tools to provide initial code, and autocomplete partially written code, though I did find that they were not particularly useful at debugging. Still, GPT was able to quickly create a simple animation of some test functions that compiled on the first try; it still took me the better part of an hour to tweak and debug it to the actual animnation I wanted, though.