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YesCursor, ChatGPT · 10 Aug 2025

the time invested into the tool means that 40 bucks of investment (20 into cursor, 20 into gpt) can add 10-15% boost in productivity

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10-15% boost in productivity

In the thread “The current state of LLM-driven development”, replying to this comment

Helped: Learning to prompt and developing guardrails.

… Maybe one day in the future it will be better. However, the time invested into the tool means that 40 bucks of investment (20 into cursor, 20 into gpt) can add 10-15% boost in productivity. Putting 200 into claude might get you another 10% and it can get you 75% in greenfield and prototyping work. …