I think the AI actively slows me down
skrebbel on Hacker News
+3000 -500 LOC PR
In the thread “Is it all just vapourware?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Very small tight loops, though not much faster than typing.
Got in the way: Reviewing large PRs full of subtly wrong abstractions and incorrect assumptions.
… The gap between the productivity increases people report on HN and what I experience myself is insane. In fact, if I factor in the procrastination I find myself doing on dotting the i's on a supposedly "one-shotted" AI implementation of a nontrivial feature, I think the AI actively slows me down. The only way I've found that I can actually use AI productively and sustainably is in very small tight loops and, well, at that point it's not that much faster than just typing in the code (with the occasional "Cursor Tab" complete). …