I've been able to write things in a week that would literally take me six moths previously.
The critics don't know the facts about how much time you can really save because their anti AI so they don't use it so they don't know, but they're happy to tell you some "facts" about how your new found AI assisted productivity is less than you really think it is.
Writing Python or Javascript? You're in luck! Wrangling some gnarly SQL or complex Rust? Expect a modest boost. Modifying an old Eiffel program? You're on your own.
I work in WinDbg analyzing crash dumps and I'm trying to get better at it so I've been trying to get Claude and Gemini to help me get to the bottom of some memory dumps I have lying around and the experience hasn't been great.
I used Claude yesterday because I wanted to modify my gvim setup to remember the window size and position and after a few tries I finally got what I want (it really wanted to use mksession but that persists way more than window size and that isn't what I wanted).
> I've been able to write things in a week that would literally take me six moths previously.
I don't think you get it. For instance: would you have been able to do that if you were on a team that was not empowered, not self-organising, and you were "afraid to fail ... afraid to try – to make calls, to take initiative, to just f-ing do it"? I doubt it.
I'm curious exactly what that thing was that you "[wrote] in a week, that would have literally take[n you] six moths previously."
Also, what species of moth do you use to measure time?
Small teams, more frequent releases, solving problems incrementally, working across the solution rather than having to bridge silos, feeling empowered and safe to try things?
If you already had those things, and took them for granted, then it may be hard for you to estimate the impact they might have had if they weren't present.
Would you still have been able to use AI to build something so much more quickly if your hands were tied by organizational policy?
I'm saying you may have already had 5 boring factors that laid a good groundwork to enable you to get that boost, but you are discounting those factors.
If I'm wrong, then tell me the context - were you in a situation where you didn't have those factors in place?
Or for anyone else reading this, are there resources you have used to learn how to get the most out of LLM coding tools?
Don't be silly! The passive, hardworking owners are the ones that deserve all of that profit. Those are just the new expectations. He shouldn't be greedy, and should be happy that he just gets to keep his job.
you wrote a tic-tac-toe game for android? so what ? what does that prove?
have you seen rails blog demo from 15 yrs ago ?