Mixed
i think my overall productivity with the latest gen (basically Opus 4.5) improve by 15-20%
orwin on Hacker News
improve by 15-20%
In the thread “The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains”
Helped: Latest generation models for frontend and easy backend tasks.
Got in the way: Previous generation models generated too much code, causing review bottlenecks and bugs.
If we take out most of frontend work, and the easy backend/Ops tasks where writing the code/config is 99% of the work, i think my overall productivity with the latest gen (basically Opus 4.5) improve by 15-20%. I also am _very_ sure that with the previous generation (Sonnet 4, sonnet 4.5, Codex 5.1), my team overall velocity decreased, even taking into account the frontend and the "easy" tasks. …