[aerhardt]

Dario Amodei said in the most recent interview with Dwarkesh that Anthropic currently gets achieves an increase of around 20-30% coding productivity, which tracks with my experience. What do you do to reap orders of magnitude more?

Also, how much more money do you make? Or are you working less?

[antipaul]

I can clearly see, and feel, Dario's associates' "increased productivity" in their Claude Code/Chat/Cowork desktop product...

So many updates, pretty much daily, so many tweaks to the interface. Sometimes the tweaks are a bit dumb, sometimes completely trivial, and other times they just undo what they did previously.

My favorite examples of their newfound velocity:

1. When there is a nice feature that was easily discovered, and then it was gone...

2. When the "customize" section moves around to random places in settings, or entirely out of it

Special mention to their scatterbrained keyboard shortcuts strategy

[dnnddidiej]

I think if you build out simple sites it is 10x. That number tends to 1x as the project gets more complex.

Side projects where you try an idea are you not finding 1h now to do what was 10h work?

[jwr]

Simple sites :-)

https://partsbox.com/ — it's an ERP/MRP for companies building electronics. Around 170k lines of Clojure and ClojureScript.

[jwr]

> What do you do to reap orders of magnitude more?

I don't know what Dario Amodei says, does, how Anthropic is run or structured, or what kind of people work there, so I can't comment on that.

I do know about myself, though. The increase is very real, measured by the number of (Linear) issues resolved. No, I haven't changed how I open or close those issues, I've been using the system for years. During the first three months of 2026 I went through 12x more issues per month than during past years.

But I guess I am not an "average programmer": 35 years of experience means I can work with AI as I would with a small (but very skilled) team. I can architect systems, notice unnecessary complexity, and intuitively choose solutions that are more maintainable. And I am a single-person company, with no managers to report to, KPIs to achieve, presentations to make, etc.

I do not make "more money". It's a mature SaaS. Changes in revenue are over the long term, on a scale of years more than months, and implementing features is no longer enough: marketing is needed for more growth.

But, to be honest, I am tired of defending myself this way. It's not the first time I post this metric, I thought people would find it an interesting data point. Instead, I get downvoted (see my comment above which currently sits at -1 in spite of being objective and factual), and then get plenty of responses asking me to defend my statements.

Come to think of it, I'd rather not convince people about AI increasing productivity so much. I'm not really sure why I bother to post here anymore. I'd rather have everyone (including my competition) believe whatever they want to believe and not use AI.