I can delegate like 4-5 small tasks that would normally take me a full day or two (or three) of context switching and mental preparation, and knock them out in less than a day because it did 50-80% of the work
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4-5 small tasks... in less than a day
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”, replying to this comment
Helped: Delegating small tasks to Devin and using Cursor for refactoring.
With something like Devin, where it integrates directly with your repo and generates documentation based on your project(s), it's much more productive to use as an agent. I can delegate like 4-5 small tasks that would normally take me a full day or two (or three) of context switching and mental preparation, and knock them out in less than a day because it did 50-80% of the work, leaving only a few fixes or small pivot for me to wrap them up. This alone is where I get a lot of my value. …