It’s 11 PM on a Tuesday in late 2025. I have a Data Structures assignment due tomorrow. The task? Implement a Red-Black Tree from scratch in C++. My professor, bless their old-school heart, wants us to "feel the pain of pointer management." My brain, fried from three lectures today, is screaming for an easier way. I open my IDE. I have GitHub Copilot Workspace open on one monitor, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on the other. I type: "Yo, I need a Red-Black Tree implementation in C++.
