> getting a 30x to 50x productivity gain
That is an absurd claim.
That is an absurd claim.
a 50x gain would literally mean you could get a year's worth of work done in a week. Preposterous.
The bottleneck is still finding good developers, even with the current generation of AI tooling in play.
The amount of pushback I got on this thread tells me most devs simply haven't started using actual Agents yet.
The rule of thumb I've learned is to give an Agent the smallest possible task at a time, so there's zero ambiguity in the prompt, and context window is kept small.
A massive amount of valuable work can result in a few lines of code. Conversely a millions lines of code can be useless or even have negative value.
An experienced developer can generate tons of great code 30x faster with an Agent, with each function/module still being written using the least amount of code possible.
But you're right, the measure of good code isn't 'N', it's '1/N' (inverse), where N is number of lines of code to do something. The best code is [almost] always that with the least amount of lines, as long as you haven't sacrificed readability in order to remove lines, which I see a lot of juniors do. Rule of thumb is: "Least amount of easily understood LOC". If someone can't look at your code for the first time, and tell what it's doing, that's normally an indication it's not good code. Claude [almost] never breaks any of these rules.
Well it does for me, frequently. An example is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126962