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by fbrncci 1155 days ago
I would say that since LLMs made it on the scene my code output efficiency went 2-3x. As a backend dev I ended up implementing several frontend features at work, stuff I would have not touched previously. I did not blindly implement them. But had ChatGPT teach me how to do so. But I would say that I could still not fully understand it without ChatGPT. And as for debugging and googling things goes. Efficiency has definitely gone up 5x in many cases. Maybe for some cases as much as 10-20x.

However my overal efficiency and productivity maybe only went up maybe 2-3x? I don’t know. It’s hard to assess. Writing code is really only part of the job, so it can only do so much. But I am absolutely sure that even now there will be outliers who went from being 1x developers to the mythical 10x, based on the improvements I have seen with myself.