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I am currently feeling like I have productivity super powers
avastmick on Hacker News
In the thread “How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity?”
Helped: Writing careful specs and tests before letting the AI write code.
Got in the way: Autocomplete slowed typing; unreviewed output required unwinding.
… This year it’s back on the table with avante[0] and cursor (the latter back off the table due to the huge memory requirements). Then recently Claude Code dropped and I am currently feeling like I have productivity super powers. I’ve set it up in a pair programming style (old XP coder) where I write careful specs (prompts) and tests (which I code); it writes code; I review run the tests and commit. …