How do you know you're more productive? Humans are excellent at fooling themselves, and absent a metric (or multiple metrics) by which you can measure your productivity, you can't be sure you're actually being more productive.
I don't know if it's made me more productive but I do know that for the past ten years I've been thinking about making an intermediate mode GUI toolkit for MPV user scripts, rendered with ASS subtitles and with a full suite of composable widgets, but for ten years I kept putting it off because it seemed like it would be a big quagmire of difficult to diagnose rendering errors (based off far more modest forays into making one-off GUIs in this way.) And I know that yesterday I decided to explain my idea to claude and now it just fucking works after just a few hours of easy casual back and forth.
I don't know man, could just be in my head. I better defer judgement, put aside all my own opinions about what happened and let some researchers with god knows what axe to grind make that decision for me.
I'm very very sure. Based on my last 15 years of coding experience I can assist fairly accurate how much a task takes. With AI I can finish the task 2x-4x faster (this includes testing, edge case handling etc).
