Yes
if you're using it as a handy assistant that you can guide to do things in minutes that would take you hours it's a force multiplier
collinvandyck76 on Hacker News
In the thread “A non-trivial PR (+1641/-1125) written ~80% with AI agents”
Helped: Guiding the assistant to do tasks in minutes instead of hours.
… If you're using it as a foundational part of your development budget I have bad news for you. But if you're using it as a handy assistant that you can guide to do things in minutes that would take you hours it's a force multiplier. One interesting thought I had about it after I used Claude Code to generate a lot of documentation for a new codebase I was being bootstrapped into was that it's kind of a hedge against the loss of mental acuity that is natural with aging. …