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I also have this feeling that I'm 2-10x more productive. But isn't it curious how a lot of devs feel this way, but no devs that I know have the experience that any of their colleagues have become 2-10x more productive?

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<raises hand> Our automated test folks were chronically behind, struggling to keep up with feature development. I got the two assigned to the team that was the most behind set up with Claude Code. Six weeks later they are fully caught up, expanding coverage, and integrating AI code review into our build pipeline.

It's not 10x, but those guys do seem like they've hit somewhere around 2x improvement overall.

10x means to me that i can finish a month of work in max 2 days and go cloud watching. What does it mean for you?

A 60 minute script becomes 6 minutes

Sometimes 10x can mean that I start things that I would have never started before, knowing it would take a long time. Or that I can have any of the agentic stuff "explore" libs, stacks and frameworks I wanted to look at, but had no time. Or distill some vague docs and blog posts to find common use cases for tech x. And so on.

It's not always a literal 10x time for taskA w/ AI vs taskA w/o AI...

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