For coding, I don't find agents boost my productivity that much where I was already productive
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Helped: Summarizing meetings, docs, and PRs; generating types and niche code.
Got in the way: Agents do not boost productivity for already productive coding tasks.
… I can get it to review PRs so I can quickly get the gist of the changes before digging into the code myself. For coding, I don't find agents boost my productivity that much where I was already productive. However, they definitely allow me to do things I was unable to before (or would have taken very long as I wasn't an expert) – for example my type signatures have improved massively, in places where normally I would have been lazy and typed as any I now ask claude to come up with some proper types. …