Writing new one-off utility tools for myself and my team: 10x-100x

JoshuaDavid on Hacker News

1.3x when working on a large janky which codebase

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

Helped: Writing new code, automated tests, and one-off utility tools like bookmarklets.

Got in the way: Fixing bugs, reproducing wild behaviors, and high-level feature planning.