I am doing a solo project that is pretty big, meaning it is not something I could vibe code. I can do alot with AI that I could never do on my own, but I am not seeing several mulitples improvement in my productivity. I spend so much time doing what I call "AI wrangling", trying to get it to do what I want. Claude is writing all the javscript and python code, but ultimately I am programming in English. What is good is that it is effectively a very high level computer language, where the agent can implement a lot of underlying code with a short English description, often. But many other times it takes a lot of work to get what you want.

I'm building a memory safe programming language with a declarative concurrency model that's close to release.

There is ZERO chance I would ever be able to complete it on my own.

I doubt it'll get traction, but if it doesn't, I am pretty confident a future language will take the ideas for polymorphic synchronization and profile-guided optimization.

It has an easy version/mode of compilation that makes Rust's affine ownership accessible like a high-level scripting language, and it can progressively become more strict, where the compiler does ~99% of the work for you, and you just pick options as it finds issues (that it explains to you like you're 5) along the way.

Along the way, I also built a suite of tools that helps identify complexity better than anything I've seen (which was necessary to get the LLMs to be able to unslop themselves and write something that actually works).

I doubt the Ruby community shrugs it off, but time will tell.

I measured an ~8x increase in the number of commits I've been pushing, and I've actually been trying to restrain myself. I could do a lot more if I stopped reviewing and editing the code. I think it's got more to do with my executive ability than raw productivity though. AI essentially cured my ADHD by making the execution of my ideas virtually painless.

I have the same experience, though I feel myself getting better at wrangling over the past few months