But the benefit might not be speed, it might be economy of attention.

I can code with Claude when my mind isn't fresh. That adds several hours of time I can schedule, where previously I had to do fiddly things when I was fresh.

What I can attest is that I used to have a backlog of things I wanted to fix, but hadn't gotten around to. That's now gone, and it vanished a lot faster than the half a year I had thought it would take.

My wife used to be a professional streamer so I know how distracting it can be to try and entertain an audience. So when I attempted to become one of these 10x AI devs over my Christmas vacation I did not live stream. But I did make a bunch of atomic commits and push them up to soucrcehut. Perhaps you'll find that helpful?

Just Christmas Vacation (12-18h days): https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/log/v0.8.0

Lastest (slowed down by job & real life): https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/log/trunk and https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby-wiki/log/wiki and https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby-tea/log/trunk

  > I'd just like to see a live coding session from one of these 10x AI devs

I mean I really need to understand what the "x" is in 10x. If their x is <0.1 then who gives a shit. But if their x is >2 then holy fuck I want to know.

Who doesn't want to be faster? But it's not like x is the same for everybody.

I don't think any serious dev has claimed 10x as a general statement. Obviously, no true scotsman and all that, so even my statement about makers of anecdotal statements is anecdotal.

Even as a slight fan, I'd never claim more than 10-20% all together. I could maybe see 5x for some specific typing heavy usages. Like adding a basic CRUD stuff for a basic entity into an already existing Spring app.

Theo the YouTuber who also runs T3.chat always makes videos about how great coding agents are and he’ll try to do something on stream and it ALWAYS fails massively and he’s always like “well it wasn’t like this when I did it earlier.”

Sure buddy.

Obviously, there has to be huge variability between people based on initial starting conditions.

It is like if someone says they are losing weight eating 2500 calories a day and someone else says that is impossible because they started eating 2500 calories and gained weight.

Neither are making anything up or being untruthful.

What is strange to me is that smart people can't see something this obvious.

> I want to get stuff done 10x as fast too

I don’t. I mean I like being productive but by doing the right thing rather than churning out ten times as much code.

I’d really like to see a 10x ai dev vs a 10x analog dev