[scuff3d]

Hit me up when you release your product. I keep seeing stuff like this and never see any proof. Companies aren't releasing 10x the features/patches/bug fixes/products, open source isn't getting 10x the number of quality PRs, absolutely no real evidence that the massive productivity gains actually exist.

What I've seen is people feel more productive, until the reality of all the subtle problems start to set in. Even skilled engineers usually only end up with 10 or 20% productivity gains by the time they reduce its usecase to where it's actually not total dog shit, or by the time they go back around and fix all the problems.

The highest quality product I know of where the creator has talked about his use of AI is ghostty, and he's not claiming massive improvements, just that it's definitely helpful.

[elliotec]

I’ll happily let you know when I release. Goal date for public beta is the 15th. I’d love eyes and feedback on it ASAP.

Hopefully it’s obvious that Claude will not have simply written the entire thing but you might get a sense of what it can do quickly as part of a whole - maybe similar to your last sentence but I suppose I am claiming massive improvements (in productivity, no warranty on quality yet).

Also keep in mind I’m entirely solo here. I fully agree with your points that the proof is in the pudding and obviously there’s nuance to all of it. But yeah, I’m not exaggerating with my commentary above.

[scuff3d]

If you don't mind me asking a couple questions, what percentage of your code would you say is AI generated, meaning you promoted an AI and it went off and wrote code that you used (with or without modification)?

And how much time would you say you spend wrangling the AI, meaning either repromting or substantially editing what you get back?