LLM tooling is useful. I have been using it on a daily basis for at least a year.
I am maybe 10-20% more productive at certain tasks in the long run (which is pretty good!). Nowhere close to to the 10x or even 2x boost people are claiming.
If LLMS were really making software developers 10x more productive over the last year, we would be seeing massive shifts in the industry. In theory either 90% layoffs or 10x product velocity.
Agreed. The noisiest people are those saying "it makes everyone 100x more productive!" and those saying "it's useless, it makes everyone less productive!". But the boring truth is somewhere in between those extremes.
I am maybe 10-20% more productive at certain tasks in the long run (which is pretty good!). Nowhere close to to the 10x or even 2x boost people are claiming.
If LLMS were really making software developers 10x more productive over the last year, we would be seeing massive shifts in the industry. In theory either 90% layoffs or 10x product velocity.