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YesCursor, Claude Code · 22 Jul 2025

I can quantify about 30% productivity boost using these agents compared to before I started using Cursor and CC

moomoo11 on Hacker News

30% productivity boost

In the thread “I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files”, replying to this comment

Helped: Agents save time on tasks, providing a net 30% productivity increase.

Got in the way: Agents occasionally perform deranged actions that actually lose time.

… I run up 200-300M tokens of usage per month with AI coding agents, consider myself technically strong as I'm building a technical platform for industry using a decade of experience as a platform engineer and building all sorts of stuff. I can quantify about 30% productivity boost using these agents compared to before I started using Cursor and CC. 30% is meaningful, but it isn't 2x my performance. …