Yes
Boilerplate work that would take 20-30 minutes is handled by a coding agent
bradfox2 on Hacker News
20-30 minutes
In the thread “I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Parallelizing boilerplate tasks between human and agent.
… I can be adding a route to the backend while Cline with Sonnet 3.7 adds a button to the frontend. Boilerplate work that would take 20-30 minutes is handled by a coding agent. With Claude writing some of the backend routes with supervision, you've got a very efficient workflow. …