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The availability of inexpensive CNC machines and 3D printers are carpentry tools that have certainly bolstered productivity in the last 10 years. Probably not “order of magnitude more powerful”, whatever that means, but as one very successful carpenter friend put it: “I don’t even fuck around with table saws anymore”.

By contrast, I’m still writing code more or less the same way I was 10 years ago, with mostly the same tools, and have not seen “order of magnitude” level of anything contributing to my productivity.