Yes
I've been able to make several non-trivial internal tools and libraries without writing much in terms of code, just some reviews here and there
magicalhippo on Hacker News
close to 50x
In the thread “The August 17 outage”, replying to this comment
Helped: Building internal tools and tracking down logic issues in unfamiliar modules.
Got in the way: Introducing more bugs when attempting to fix existing code.
The variance is extreme though. Thanks to Claude Code and Codex I've been able to make several non-trivial internal tools and libraries without writing much in terms of code, just some reviews here and there. I spent a couple of days on those, and its would have taken me months to write manually I am sure, so in that regards it's close to 50x. …