I am able to dramatically speed up my work
aspenmartin on Hacker News
most (significant) LOC are written by agents
In the thread “2025: The Year in LLMs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Writing scripts, dashboards, and reviewing code decisions.
Got in the way: Claude gets hopelessly lost sometimes.
… Like a lot of things LLM related (Simon Willison's pelican test, researchers + product leaders implementing AI features) I also heavily "vibe" check the capabilities myself on real work tasks. The fact of the matter is I am able to dramatically speed up my work. It may be actually writing production code + helping me review it, or it may be tasks like: write me a script to diagnose this bug I have, or build me a streamlit dashboard to analyze + visualize this ad hoc data instead of me taking 1 hour to make visualizations + munge data in a notebook. …