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Comment by JamesSwift

6 days ago

I can definitely see the 10% boost being accurate. Keep in mind, its not about doing everything 10% faster, its about being able to put out 10% more results by leveraging agentic coding when it makes sense.

This week I was able to tackle two long-standing bug fixes I've been noodling on and had a rough idea of what I needed to do but had competing priorities and a lack of time to sit down and really internalize the system to figure them out. I brain dumped the issue and my current thoughts and had claude formulate a plan. It solved each in less than 30 minutes of very light effort on my part. I was able to tack these onto larger work I'm doing basically seamlessly.

The other thing that I've found to be an insane benefit is filesystem-backed context switching. If your agentic workflow involves dumping your plan and progress to files in the filesystem, you can pause and restart work at any time by pointing at those files and saying "continue where you last left off". You can even take a `git diff > that-one-bug.patch` of edits made up to that point, copy that alongside the other files, and have a nice-and-neat folder of a unit of work that is ready to pick back up in the future as time permits.