Comment by jatora

imo if your developers arent at least 2x as productive, then something is being done wrong on the employees part and/or the organization's. cli tools are ridiculously powerful provided you were an actual developer before using AI.

Maybe it's just me being (trigger warning from me providing an honest self assessment) very intelligent + a generalist, but i went from only full stack webdev and .NET to being able to implement an end-to-end LLM training pipeline (data curation, tokenizer, pretrain, sft, DPO - using ~$100 in cloud compute to train a class-competitive 1B STEM model)...and a full economic financial modeling and quant analysis application that pulls up to date economic, economic, news, stock data from the entire world and uses Dagster to orchestrate tech ical indicators and fundamentals and signals... and i did these things for learning and for fun. i built my own sublime text and obsidian replacement. i built my own reddit/twitter/hackernews/substack/news aggregator. i built countless other useful tools and utilities for me personally and for work I build more that empowers multiple departments.

Ive built 2 browser games, one already released to great reviews and 100k+ hours played. Ive built a tool on top of claude code that does ~60% of my job. Ive run data analysis on company financials for forecasting that have been refined and are producing very accurate predictions. Ive built competitive analysis tools and trackers.

All of this in 3 years. The projects are all clean, documented, with great code practices and modularity. A purist would surely consider some of the code slop. But it all works completely and fills real needs.

This is a huge shift. Anyone not realizing it yet is just simply behind the curve. I would not have accomplished 1/10 of this without AI coding. I went from copying code into and out of browser chats for 2 years before getting on the CLI train, and it is absolutely ridiculous the ROI you get from subscriptions to Claude or Codex.