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>>gregor+(OP)
I’ve been using Claude (via Cursor) on a greenfield project for the last couple months and my observation is:

1. I am much more productive/effective

2. It’s way more cognitively demanding than writing code the old-fashioned way

3. Even over this short timespan, the tools have improved significantly, amplifying both of the points above

>>jes519+D7
This mirrors my experience and those I've talked to.

LLM assisted coding is a way to get stuff done much faster, at a greatly increased mental cost / energy spent. Oddly enough.

>>pton_x+kp
The small dopamine hits you get from "it compiles" are completely automated away, and you're forced to survive on the goal alone. The issues are necessarily complex and require thinking about how the LLM has gotten it subtly wrong.

Painful, but effective?