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This is extremely dismissive. Claude Code helps me make a majority of changes to our codebase now, particularly small ones, and is an insane efficiency boost. You may not have the same experience for one reason or another, but plenty of devs do, so "nothing happened" is absolutely wrong.

2024 was a lot of talk, a lot of "AI could hypothetically do this and that". 2025 was the year where it genuinely started to enter people's workflows. Not everything we've been told would happen has happened (I still make my own presentations and write my own emails) but coding agents certainly have!

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Did you ship more in 2025 than in 2024?

I definitely did.

Shipping in 2025: https://x.com/trq212/status/2001848726395269619

I definitely did.

Objectively 0->1 lots of backlog.

And this is one of the vague "AI helped me do more".

This is me touting for Emacs

Emacs was a great plus for me over the last year. The integration with various tooling with comint (REPL integration), compile (build or report tools), TUI (through eat or ansi-term), gave me a unified experience through the buffer paradigm of emacs. Using the same set of commands boosted my editing process and the easy addition of new commands make it easy to fit my development workflow to the editor.

This is how easy it is to write a non-vague "tool X helped me" and I'm not even an English native speaker.

That paragraph could be the truth, or it could be a lie. Maybe Emacs really did make you more efficient, or you made it all up, I don't know. Best I can do is trust you.

If you don't trust me, I can't conclusively convince you that AI makes me more efficient, but if you want I'm happy to hop on a screen-share and elaborate in what ways it has boosted my workflow. I'm offering this because I'm also curious what your work looks like where AI cannot help at all.

E-mail address is on my profile!

> This is how easy it is to write a non-vague "tool X helped me" and I'm not even an English native speaker.

Your example is very vague.

See if you can spot the problem in my review of Excel in your style:

"It's great and I like how it's formula paradigm gave me a unified experience. It's table features boosted my science workflows last year".

LLMs must be dismissed.

The dismissive tone is warranted.

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