Mixed
I think it's improved my productivity maybe 20%, all things considered
komali2 on Hacker News
20%
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”
Helped: Generating boilerplate, tedious changes, and writing tests.
Got in the way: Complex logic changes, outdated type definitions, and poor code quality.
… I think it's still very useful to have Claude generate a lot of boilerplate, or come in and make some tedious changes for me, or just write all my tests, but beyond that, I don't know. I think it's improved my productivity maybe 20%, all things considered. Still amazing! …