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I measured an ~8x increase in my project's commit count after AI, and I'm painstakingly reading, reviewing, understanding and editing everything the models write. It's gotten to the point I'm trying to slow down in order to let the new knowledge crystallize. I'm manually writing articles about what I'm doing as I go.

I can only imagine what people are doing at their jobs with unlimited token budgets.

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> I measured an ~8x increase in my project's commit count after AI,

That's irrelevant. What's the increase in revenue?

I'm a hobbyist. My revenue will only increase if my work somehow lands me a job at some point.

Are you not employed at all?

Yes, but my field has not been hit by the AI frenzy yet. Outside the usual attempts to automate us, that is. I've used AI at work for research and corroboration but it hasn't led to 100x performance or anything of the sort.

Kind of weird how LoC has become a metric for people to chase again.

In my case it was commits, not lines of code. I wasn't chasing after it, I just asked Claude to calculate some statistics after a month or so of AI usage.

It's not just statistics either. I know for a fact that I made major progress by using LLMs. Here's a summary from around a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407642

AI is world changing technology as far as I'm concerned.

You don’t have to imagine, listen to Boris’ publicly saying how he works with these things and it’s safe to assume others do it similarly or better

if hes still doing work on claude code, im not convinced its going all that great.

its a lot of features that feel half complete, with the llm pretending that the job is done rather than actually being done

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