It depends on a lot of things.

I know JavaScript on a pretty surface level, but I can use Claude to wire up react and tailwind, and then my experience with all the other programming I’ve done gives me enough intuition to clean it up. That helps me turn rough things into usable tools that can be reused or deployed in small scale.

That’s a productivity increase for sure.

It has not helped me with the problems that I need to spend 2-5 days just thinking about and wrapping my head around solutions to. Even if it does come up with solutions that pass tests, they still need to be scrutinized and rewritten.

But the small tasks it’s good at add up to being worth the price tag for a subscription.

Do you feel like you begin to _really_ understand React and Tailwind? Major tools that you seem to use now.

Do you feel that you will become so well-versed in it that you will be able to debug weird edge cases in the future?

Will you be able to reason about performance? Develop deep intuition why pattern X doesn't work for React but pattern Y does. etc?

I personally learned for myself that this learning is not happening. My knowledge of tools that I used LLMs for stayed pretty superficial. I became dependent on the machine.