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I am an old SWE and claude 4.5 has not changed a thing on how we work.

The teams that have embraced AI in their worlflow have not increased their output compared with they ones that don't use it.

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I'm like you. I'd say my productivity improved by 5-10%: Claude can make surprinsgly good code edits. For these, my subjective feeling is that claude does in 30 min what I'd have dont in one hour. It's a net gain. Now, my job is about communicating, understanding problems, learning, etc. So my overall productivity is not dramatically changing, but for things related to code, it's a net 5-10%

Which is where the AI investment disconnect is scary.

AI Companies have invested a crazy amount of money into a small productivity gain for their customers.

If AI was replacing developers it wouldn’t cost me $20-100/month to get a subscription.

If I had something that could replace developers I will not sell it.

I will get all the goverment IT contracts and make billions in a few months.

Nobody does it because LLMS are a fucking scam, like crypto, and I am tired of pretending is not.

Two things I solidly recommend it for are helper scripts and test code. Writing boilerplate tests is so much easier with it. I recently vibe coded an entire text-ui frontend to perforce, similar to tig for git, and it took about 2 hours. Yeah, I'm not ready to use it for our driver code yet but I would use it to check my work.

What you're doing there with Perforce sounds like procrastination to me.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

Good for you, though.

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