Mixed
In the end it seemed like it saved me maybe 20% of my time overall
marstall on Hacker News
saved me maybe 20% of my time overall
In the thread “Something Big Is Happening”
Helped: Small drudgery, generating controllers/frontend from specs, and writing tests.
Got in the way: Failed to understand product depth and concerns, leading down garden paths.
… Aside from that, a large part of my job was the parts that weren't coding - wrestling with specs that were far from ready for primetim, chaotic internal processes, deployment, internal coordination/communcation, talking to customers, etc. In the end it seemed like it saved me maybe 20% of my time overall. Nothing to sneeze at. …