[aragilar]

How do you know you're more productive? Humans are excellent at fooling themselves, and absent a metric (or multiple metrics) by which you can measure your productivity, you can't be sure you're actually being more productive.

[mikkupikku]

I don't know if it's made me more productive but I do know that for the past ten years I've been thinking about making an intermediate mode GUI toolkit for MPV user scripts, rendered with ASS subtitles and with a full suite of composable widgets, but for ten years I kept putting it off because it seemed like it would be a big quagmire of difficult to diagnose rendering errors (based off far more modest forays into making one-off GUIs in this way.) And I know that yesterday I decided to explain my idea to claude and now it just fucking works after just a few hours of easy casual back and forth.

I don't know man, could just be in my head. I better defer judgement, put aside all my own opinions about what happened and let some researchers with god knows what axe to grind make that decision for me.

[make_it_sure]

I'm very very sure. Based on my last 15 years of coding experience I can assist fairly accurate how much a task takes. With AI I can finish the task 2x-4x faster (this includes testing, edge case handling etc).