Yes
Overall I think it's completely fair to say that Claude saved me a week of dev time on this particular task
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saved me a week of dev time
In the thread “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”, replying to this comment
Helped: Iterating through approaches and generating detailed prompts after initial exploration.
… I spent probably another day tweaking, testing, and cleaning up. Overall I think it's completely fair to say that Claude saved me a week of dev time on this particular task. The amount of reading and learning and iterating I'd have had to do to get the same result would have just taken 3-4 days of work. …