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YesCopilot, ChatGPT · 28 Dec 2025

Tasks that would have taken me weeks end‑to‑end are now usually a couple of days, sometimes hours

dipeshsukhani on Hacker News

10–20x change

In the thread “Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?”

Helped: Restructuring work with GitHub repos and specific context folders.

… Idea → spec → implementation → iteration all compress into much tighter loops. Tasks that would have taken me weeks end‑to‑end are now usually a couple of days, sometimes hours. Subjectively that’s where the 10–20x feeling comes from, even though it’s hard to measure precisely. …