it easily 5x’s my productivity
malux85 on Hacker News
5x’s my productivity
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Helped: Refactoring code and writing helpers, deployment, and tests.
… This is legally backed up and governments and banks use this version to guarantee that submitted queries are not retained. I’m a developer with about the same amount of experience as you (22 years) and LLMs are incredibly useful to me, but only really as an advanced tab completion (I use paid version of cursor with the latest Claude model) and it easily 5x’s my productivity. The most benefit comes from refactoring code where I change one line, the llm detects what I’m doing and then updates all the other lines in the file. …