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> Don’t get me wrong, I use these tools daily. That being said I’m having a very hard time finding where the productivity gains are.

So why are you using the tools? Personal curiosity? Workplace mandate?

I've made measurably more and faster progress on both professional and personal projects since adopting these tools. Sometimes assisted is less productive than unassisted, but the net gain is pretty obvious to me.



Honestly? It allows me to be lazy.


This.

An AI is like delegating it to the junior programmer you don't have. You spend 5 minutes writing the spec rather than an hour coding.

It's usually something you could do yourself, and just can't get motivated to type out the code in the moment.


No, it allows you to procrastinate on thinking, which is very different than laziness.


Eh, no, it’s laziness :)


That's a productivity gain in my book.


Yep...same

I use the tools, but I'm under no delusions that I'm not just being lazy. I could just do it myself, and in some cases it would take roughly the same amount of time, but I can scroll TikTok while it dutifully churns out code.




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