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I have been able to produce 20x the amount of useful outputs both in my day job and in my free time using a popular coding agent in 2026
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20x the amount of useful outputs
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Helped: Using a popular coding agent to build things previously only dreamed about.
I have been able to produce 20x the amount of useful outputs both in my day job and in my free time using a popular coding agent in 2026. Part of me is uncomfortable at having from some perspective my hard won knowledge of how to write English, code and to design systems partly commoditized. …