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diego_sandoval ◴[] No.44998676[source]
It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code.

Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.

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1. Aurornis ◴[] No.44998815[source]
I’ve found LLMs useful at some specific tasks, but a complete waste of time at others.

If I only ever wrote small Python scripts, did small to medium JavaScript front end or full stack websites, or a number of other generic tasks where LLMs are well trained I’d probably have a different opinion.

Drop into one of my non-generic Rust codebases that does something complex and I could spent hours trying to keep the LLM moving in the right direction and away from all of the dead ends and thought loops.

It really depends on what you’re using them for.

That said, there are a lot of commenters who haven’t spent more than a few hours playing with LLMs and see every LLM misstep as confirmation of their preconceived ideas that they’re entirely useless.