alt Hacker NewsI don't know. Claude helped me implement a ton of features I had been procrastinating for months in a matter of days. I'm implementing features in my project faster than I can blog about them. It definitely manifested as a huge commit spike.
And it's not like I'm blindly commiting LLM output. I often write everything myself because I want to understand what I'm doing. Claude often comments that my version is better and cleaner. It's just that the tasks seemed so monumental I felt paralyzed and had difficulty even starting. Claude broke things down into manageable steps that were easy to do. Having a code review partner was also invaluable for a solo hobbyist like me.
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> Claude often comments that my version is better and cleaner.
Every comment I make is a "really perceptive observation" according to Claude and every question I ask is either "brilliant" or at least "good", so...
This right here is the big value I see in LLMs as well. I specifically suffer from analysis paralysis when starting something big and just getting skeletonized cheap code out quick as a template then refining it is much more to my strengths. I am ADHD and task breakdown is a known difficulty for that disorder so it has been hugely helpful.
That said, by the time I'm happy with it all the AI stuff outside very boilerplate ops/config stuff has been rewritten and refined. I just find it quite helpful to get over that initial hump of "I have nothing but a dream" to the stage of "I have a thing that compiles but is terrible". Once I can compile it then I can refine which where my strengths lie.