[aleph_minus_one]

There is (unluckily) a third option (the one that LLM fans like to promote):

Currently LLMs are a rather bad productivity booster for programming, but in the near future, this will change. Whatever IDE has exceptional support for the workflows that will be possible by AI will have an insanely attractive value proposition in the future.

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> Currently LLMs are a rather bad productivity booster for programming, but in the near future, this will change.

been hearing this for three years now

[aleph_minus_one]

I am similarly doubtful of such claims, but just look at various posts on HN where the writers makes claims how much more productive Claude Code (before: Cursor; before that: (GitHub) Copilot) made their programming.

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