I now am able to use the fundamental advantages that the technology offers, i.e. write 500 lines of code in 10 minutes
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write 500 lines of code in 10 minutes, reducing something that would have taken me two to three days before to half a day
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Helped: High-effort agentic features in recent model releases.
Got in the way: Earlier models were slow, made many mistakes, and ignored instructions.
… If I asked it to not do something, it would follow (earlier iterations just ignored me, it was frustrating). At least for the software development areas I'm touching (writing databases in Rust), LLMs turned into a genuinely useful tool where I now am able to use the fundamental advantages that the technology offers, i.e. write 500 lines of code in 10 minutes, reducing something that would have taken me two to three days before to half a day (as of course I still need to review it and fix mistakes/wrong choices the tool made). Of course this doesn't mean that I am now 6x faster at all coding tasks, because sometimes I need to figure out the best design or such, but …