I'm in the same bubble. I find if they do link to it it's some basic unimpressive demo app. That said, I want to see a video where of one of these people that apparently 10x'd there programming go against a dev without AI across various scenarios. I just think it would be interesting to watch if they had a similar base skill & understanding of things.

> That said, I want to see a video where of one of these people that apparently 10x'd there programming go against a dev without AI across various scenarios.

It would be interesting, but do understand that if AI coding is totally fantastic in one domain (basic automation scripting) and totally crappy in another (existing, complex codebase), it's still a (significant) improvement from the pre-AI days.

Concrete example: A few days ago I had an AI model write me a basic MCP tool: Creating a Jira story. In 15 minutes, it had written the API function for me, I manually wrapped it to make it an MCP tool, tested it, and then created tens of stories from a predefined list, and verified it worked.

Now if you already know the Jira APIs (endpoints, auth, etc), you could do it with similar speed. But I didn't. Just finding the docs, etc would take me longer.

Code quality is fine. This is not production code. It's just for me.

Yes, there are other Jira MCP libraries already. It was quicker for me to write my own than to figure out the existing ones (ditto for Github MCP). When using LLMs to solve a coding problem is faster than using Google/SO/official docs/existing libraries, that's clearly a win.

Would I do it this way for production code? No. Does that mean it's bad? No.