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by piker 3 hours ago
I tend to agree with the title but the content seems both AI generated and somewhat dated. The feels 20% faster but actually 19% slower I believe is a few years old at this point. I'm a skeptical as the next but I think it would hard to find a metric on which modern LLMs make devs "19% slower".
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>The feels 20% faster but actually 19% slower I believe is a few years old at this point

No, it's from last october, and it probably lasted until at least codex5.3/sonnet 4.6, so it's 6 month old at best, maybe less (You can't say the same with Opus though for sure). I felt faster for sure, but all metrics (except LOC) from my team were worst, and we spend a lot of extra time bugfixing. We're better now, but it's hard to say if it's because the models are that much better or if now the people generating 100% of their code now actually review the code themselves before opening a PR (also we are a bit more coercitive during the PR reviews, what use to be non-blocking like style choices is now blocking, and we dig way more).