Mixed
There are some people who are all in and have it write everything for them but it doesn’t seem like there’s any evidence they’re more productive
strange_quark on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Asking questions and generating occasional boilerplate and one-off scripts.
Got in the way: No evidence that letting it write everything increases productivity.
… I still mostly write my own code and I’ve seen our claude code usage and me just asking it questions and generating occasional boilerplate and one-off scripts puts me in the top quartile of users. There are some people who are all in and have it write everything for them but it doesn’t seem like there’s any evidence they’re more productive.