Yes
The work I’m using Claude to do is the exact work I would be doing myself, but it does it at somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-10x the pace I could have
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5-10x the pace I could have
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Helped: Well-established systems, standards, and ~20k lines of example code.
Got in the way: Need to understand codebase changes at accelerated rate.
… It’s a codebase that I laid the groundwork in, and has very well established systems, standards, and constraints. The work I’m using Claude to do is the exact work I would be doing myself, but it does it at somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-10x the pace I could have. I don’t know that I could get the same rate of production if I managed a team of 2-3 programmers. …