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People are really bad at evaluating whether ai speeds them up or slows them down. The main question is, do you enjoy this kind of process of working with ai. I personally don't, so I don't use it. It's hard for me to believe any claims about productivity gains.

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This is the crux of the discussion. For me the output is a greater reward than the input. The faster I can reach the output the better.

And to clarify, I don't mean output as "this feature works, awesome", but "this feature works, it's maintainable and the code looks as beautiful as I can make it"

I like it when it works but I literally had to take a break yesterday due to the rage I was feeling from Claude repeatedly declaring "I found it!" or "Perfect - found the issue!" before totally breaking the code.

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