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YesClaude · 12 May 2026

I do in a day what would probably take me 2

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I do in a day what would probably take me 2.

In the thread “Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools”, replying to this comment

Helped: Boilerplate configs and specific peripheral setup tasks.

Got in the way: Reviewing others' work and planning.

… Or in a bare metal project, I can point it at an STM32 cubemx starter repo and ask for a feature (set up the ADC on pins 4 and 7, ask me for parameters) and it's just done. I do in a day what would probably take me 2. It doesn't help me with reviewing others' work, or planning (I maintain that these are manual tasks). …