Speed and quality are basically uncorrelated, except in the big picture where slower -> better -> fastest to a real solution for the whole system.
The reason slower leads to better is due to iterations of examination and consideration of more possible use cases. It’s not about wall clock time, it’s about understanding the problem. AI agents let you shoot yourself in the foot 10x faster, but they also help you work through the edge cases faster too - not 10x faster, because the agent can’t know the edge cases as well as a domain expert can, but still faster.
It can be rather helpful for some things but I’ve yet to see any actual data supporting it being “substantially faster”. To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.
I mean if you’re just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I’m sure it’s substantial. But that’s not really most of dev.
Yeah i duno, it’s helped me make a massive script to automate a hugely time consuming part of my job saving literally 10’s of thousands of hours of work, I’m using it to also setup a boilerplate website that links to our backend to monitor services, it has also helped me setup home automation which makes me money (export power to grid during peak time), and I use it daily for any number of things, it’s great
Claude Code hit $1 billion in annualized run-rate revenue in the first six months after its release and has since grown to $2.5 billion, the company said. Once used primarily by AI-forward startups, Claude Code has gained traction with engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies and even among hobbyists lacking technical skills who are interested in building their own apps. It’s been used for everything from growing a tomato plant to helping plan the route of a NASA Mars rover. On social media, users describe themselves as “Claude-pilled,” or Claude-obsessed.
3D printing was awesome. Once or twice a year, it could make something for me that was genuinely useful. It also occupied a big chunk of space in the house and mostly created mostly useless plastic junk creating more clutter - we started 3D printing in 2018 and gave the printer away to someone with a bigger house in 2020. Once since then I have asked him to print something for me. It’s that useful.
AI agents are making software. I’ve got Terabyte flash drives smaller than a key fob - the clutter won’t be a problem in our house anytime soon. So far, Claude has helped me cleanup / fix several hobby software projects in amazingly short time to an amazingly high level of polish.
faster != better
In fact,
faster != good
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Speed and quality are basically uncorrelated, except in the big picture where slower -> better -> fastest to a real solution for the whole system.
The reason slower leads to better is due to iterations of examination and consideration of more possible use cases. It’s not about wall clock time, it’s about understanding the problem. AI agents let you shoot yourself in the foot 10x faster, but they also help you work through the edge cases faster too - not 10x faster, because the agent can’t know the edge cases as well as a domain expert can, but still faster.
works for me and apparently a shitload of other people because the thing is so popular it can’t stop crashing from people using the hell out of it
It can be rather helpful for some things but I’ve yet to see any actual data supporting it being “substantially faster”. To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.
I mean if you’re just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I’m sure it’s substantial. But that’s not really most of dev.
If you’re reading a study performed 6, or even 3 months ago, you’re getting significantly stale data - it really is moving that fast.
Yeah i duno, it’s helped me make a massive script to automate a hugely time consuming part of my job saving literally 10’s of thousands of hours of work, I’m using it to also setup a boilerplate website that links to our backend to monitor services, it has also helped me setup home automation which makes me money (export power to grid during peak time), and I use it daily for any number of things, it’s great
Seems to work well for other people as well:
https://archive.md/4cBEV
But who knows, maybe it’s just 3d printing 2.0
3D printing was awesome. Once or twice a year, it could make something for me that was genuinely useful. It also occupied a big chunk of space in the house and mostly created mostly useless plastic junk creating more clutter - we started 3D printing in 2018 and gave the printer away to someone with a bigger house in 2020. Once since then I have asked him to print something for me. It’s that useful.
AI agents are making software. I’ve got Terabyte flash drives smaller than a key fob - the clutter won’t be a problem in our house anytime soon. So far, Claude has helped me cleanup / fix several hobby software projects in amazingly short time to an amazingly high level of polish.