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ChicagoDave 4 days ago

I have 41 years building software for Fortune 500 companies.

10x is a slam dunk for guys like me. 40x is because I’m divorced and bored.

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lelanthran 4 days ago | parent [-]

Look, pre-LLM, I could churn out 600 lines of tested code into production per day.

If using my web app crud framework, I could produce a single simple crud webpage in a single day.

I could do more complex things in a single week (industrial sensors and controllers).

With LLMs, I don't deliver 6000 production code per day, I don't deliver 10 web apps per day and I don't deliver 10 different embedded projects 0or week.

I don't know what your personal pre-LLM metrics are, but with 41 years of experience I expect them to be close to mine.

I am skeptical that you can deliver 10x of what your previous metrics were, nevermind 40x.

What are your pre-LLM metrics?

	▲	ChicagoDave 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not just my metrics. It’s because ALL the gaps in my engineering knowledge are closed with GenAI. Well except for graphic design. But all the complexity of web development is erased. AWS development and deployment complexity and time requirements are erased. Debugging problem time is erased. Refactoring times are squashed. Assessing gaps time requirements are squashed. This is why I say 40x. It’s not what I knew. It’s that I can have GenAI do all the things I don’t know.