I was a 3-4x programmer before. Now I’m a 9-15x programmer when wrangling LLMs.
This is a sea change and it’s already into “incredible” territory and shows no signs of slowing down.
> Think of anything you wanted to build but didn’t. You tried to home in on some first steps. If you’d been in the limerent phase of a new programming language, you’d have started writing. But you weren’t, so you put it off, for a day, a year, or your whole career.
I have been banging out little projects that I have wanted to exist for years but always had on the back burner. Write a detailed readme and ask the agent to interrogate you about the missing parts of the spec then update the README. Then have it make a TODO and start implementing. Give it another code base for style guide.
I’ve made more good and useful and working code in the last month than I have in the last two years.