Yes
I must confess it has made me extremely productive if we measure in terms of writing code
spprashant on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Understanding codebase, mental structure, manual review of plans.
Got in the way: Brainstorming with GPT/Gemini is less reliable than manual research.
… I am a data engineer maintaining a big data Spark cluster as well as a dozen Postgres instances - all self hosted. I must confess it has made me extremely productive if we measure in terms of writing code. I don't even do a lot of special AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md shenanigans, I just prompt CC, work on a plan, and then manually review the changes as it implements it. …