Yes
I am _much_ more motivated in the last few months because AI removes so much friction
shepherdjerred on Hacker News
In the thread “Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind””, replying to this comment
Helped: Small concrete tasks, PR-sized units, and validation prompts.
… I don't really know that I can quantify the productive gain.. I can say that I am _much_ more motivated in the last few months because AI removes so much friction. I think it's backed up by my commit history since June/July which is when I started using Cursor heavily: https://github.com/shepherdjerred