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From my experience, AI has increased my performance roughly by 20%
bhopro on Hacker News
increased my performance roughly by 20%
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”
Helped: Bypassing accumulated human slop in legacy code and speeding up zero-to-one boilerplate.
Got in the way: Slowed down by 50% on newer languages and hardware-specific code due to poor extrapolation.
… If you are working at a large company on a pre-existing codebase, you likely have to deal with complexity that has compounded over many product cycles, pull requests, and engineer turnover. From my experience, AI has increased my performance roughly by 20%. This is primarily due to LLMs bypassing much of the human slop that has accumulated over the years on Google. …