I’m convinced I’m their most productive employee and that’s not by measuring lines of code, which don’t matter
hotpotat on Hacker News
productivity was still at least 3x
In the thread “Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking”
Helped: Architect role, rigorous testing, and domain knowledge.
Got in the way: Annoying build errors initially.
… I audit everything myself before making PRs and test rigorously, but Cursor + Sonnet is just insane with their codebase. I’m convinced I’m their most productive employee and that’s not by measuring lines of code, which don’t matter; people who are experts in the codebase ask me for help with niche bugs I can narrow in on in 5-30 minutes as someone whose fresh to their domain. I had to lay off taking work away from the front end dev (which I’ve avoided my whole career) because I was stepping on his toes, fixing little problems as I saw them thanks to Claude. …