Yes
I'm easily hitting 10x levels of output nowadays, and it's purely enabled by agentic coding
nvarsj on Hacker News
10x levels of output
In the thread “Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simpler programming languages and clean codebases with good error messages.
Got in the way: C++ and spaghetti codebases with poor error messages.
My experience is kind of the opposite of what you describe (working in big tech). Like, I'm easily hitting 10x levels of output nowadays, and it's purely enabled by agentic coding. I don't really have an answer for why everyone's experience is so different - but we should be careful to not paint in broad strokes our personal experience with AI: "everyone knows AI is bad" - nope! …