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I've deployed code with Claude that was >100X faster, all-in (verification, testing, etc) than doing it myself. (I've been writing code professionally and successfully for >30 years).

>100X isn't typical, I'd guess typical in my case is >2X, but it's happened at large scale and saved me months of work in this single instance. (Years of work overall)

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If you wirte 100x faster code you could probably automate almost all of it away as it seems to be super trivial and already resolved problems. I also use Claude for my coding a lot, but i’m not sure about real gains if it even give me noticeable speed improvement as i’m in a loop of “waiting” and fixing bugs that LLM made still it is super useful for writing big doc strings and smaller tests maybe if i focus on some basic tasks like classical backend or frontend it’ll be more useful

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