I am feeling very tired. Since I’ve started working with LLMs my output as a solo dev has easily gone up 20x. I’m closing client projects including ones that previously would have been far too ambitious to take on alone. Long running codebases are getting features that have dragged out for months or been sitting in the planning stages for even longer. And overall quality is way up now with more complete (and honestly…
How much of that code are you reading
For client work, a similar split. Simple UI fixes, I give it a scan. A feature that will have to be supported indefinitely, I’ll spend a few days on it making sure I really understand it. It’s not really a fair comparison though because by the time I get to a serious review I’ve already done multiple iterative sessions planning and architecting with the LLM then approved each commit as it has gone in.
I’m conflicted though. For sure I don’t have as good a grasp of my own codebase as I did when I wrote every line. I think I’m ok with that though.