Comment by sdesol
2 days ago
> you can speed up development by 10x.
If you know what you are doing, then yes. If you are a domain expert and can articulate your thoughts clearly in a prompt, you will most likely see a boost—perhaps two to three times—but ten times is unlikely. And if you don't fully understand the problem, you may experience a negative effect.
I think it also depends on how much yak-shaving is involved in the domain, regardless of expertise. Whether that’s something simple like remembering the right bash incantation or something more complex like learning enough Terraform and providers to be able to spin up cloud infrastructure.
Some projects just have a lot of stuff to do around the edges and LLMs excel at that.