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Where as I'm stuck in a big team with a legacy codebase and lots of business rules, performing small incremental changes. So I spend my days banging the Esc key and shouting "Shut the f**k up!".

Luckily I work remote. I'd turn it off again, but my usage is monitored and I don't want to look like a Luddite.

So may be .75x to .8x range.

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In my experience a legacy codebase is where LLM shines. What would take days to grok is understood and explained almost immediately. There was a bit of job security with being the one whose worked with IIFEs to manage state.

You must know the codebase well if the LLM is slowing you down.

Some of our biggest wins were in a legacy code base, where changes would require a lot of archaeology. I feel like Claude (and probably most coding LLMs) really shine when optimizing fat blocks of SQL, given the complex relational calculus.

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