Mixed
I'm working on more features/bugs at work and getting the coding done faster with claude but the coding part is at maximum half of the process and usually less
ctkhn on Hacker News
10x speedup on 10% of the project is just a 9% speedup overall
In the thread “The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway”, replying to this comment
Helped: Getting the coding done faster
Got in the way: Clarifying requirements and understanding legacy infrastructure state
… This is totally true for me. I'm working on more features/bugs at work and getting the coding done faster with claude but the coding part is at maximum half of the process and usually less. The rest of it is clarifying the requirements from our product team or given that we're a very legacy place, what the existing state of our infrastructure and other systems are for the new changes to fit in to, etc.