Are you saying AI for commercial day job or is this something for personal project workflows?
Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
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Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#62Also, AI is great but it hasn’t improved by ability to solve Leetcode problem any faster.
Anyone experiencing this problem as well?
Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#63In other words, in a single year you did the amount of work that would take 20-50 years of a regular software engineer to complete? So, it would take roughly two months to complete a project at the scale of SQLite or TeX.
Yep, wait until he's done replacing COBOL completely in 5 years
Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#64To be clear you believe that you do a year's worth of work in one week? Every week? So halfway through this year you will have done 25 years of work?
He was just not doing his job 95% of the time.
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#65I so wish just one of these posts with these insane ~20-50x claims would include a narrated video of someone using it, or show us a repository with the code, or anything tangible.
Sure. Here is my latest 4-hour speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6UFyIPYNY
I appreciate the video. I see that most of the time it's the dialogue with the AI that is in the focus, the code or the actual product rarely shows up compared to that (or maybe it does? I can't read the text on the video due to the quality).
It's hard to tell where this 20-50x increase is.
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#66Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#67So, you effectively have 20-50 developers of your caliber doing work for you for free? You must be running your own company now.
The reality is probably simpler: you've automated a good deal of busywork that you would never have done otherwise.
Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#68There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore. That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding…
Can you actually provide any proof, even top-line stats from GitHub or other software forges that show the productivity boost you’re claiming?
It’s not up to the skeptics to prove this tech doesn’t work, it’s up to the proponents to show it does and does so with a similar effect size as cigarettes cause lung cancer.
There are a tremendous amount of LLM productivity stans on HN but the plural of anecdote is not data.
Certainly these tools are useful, but the extent to which they are useful today is not nearly as open and shut as you and others would claim. I’d say that these tools make me 5% more productive on a code base I know well.
I’m totally open to opposing evidence that isn’t just anecdote
Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#69There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore. That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding…
Can you actually provide any proof, even top-line stats from GitHub or other software forges that show the productivity boost you’re claiming? It’s not up to the skeptics to prove this tech doesn’t work, it’s up to the proponents to show it does and does so with a similar effect size as cigarettes cause lung cancer. There are a tremendous amount of LLM productivity stans on HN but the plural of anecdote is not data.…
I think it’s pretty obvious that is the OP automates this manual part of their workflow that it will improve their iteration speed. The thread root is just saying stop copy and pasting and use the built in tooling to communicate with the LLM apis
Re: Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you actually provide any proof, even top-line stats from GitHub or other software forges that show the productivity boost you’re claiming? It’s not up to the skeptics to prove this tech doesn’t work, it’s up to the proponents to show it does and does so with a similar effect size as cigarettes cause lung cancer. There are a tremendous amount of LLM productivity stans on HN but the plural of anecdote is not data.…
I think it’s pretty obvious that is the OP automates this manual part of their workflow that it will improve their iteration speed. The thread root is just saying stop copy and pasting and use the built in tooling to communicate with the LLM apis
They aren’t responding to thread roots extended comment, just the first part about the tone and rhetoric of AI proponents. Your comment isnt really a response to anything in their comment.