the real world efficiency gains on net are probably nonexistent

coffeebeqn on Hacker News

50-50 if it’s useful or if I waste a few hours

In the thread “Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up”, replying to this comment

Helped: Trivial scripts, creating structs from docs, and Claude.md context files for new engineers.

Got in the way: Unit tests, moderately complex codebases, agent mode building unneeded complexity and existing features.