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Would you say you do things you'd normally do 3 times faster? Or does it help you move past the things you'd get stuck on or avoid in the past, resulting in an overall 3x speedup?

cloverich
Things I'd normally do 3x faster. That 3x is me focusing explicitly on the precise things I did before - the PR rate on a specific work project - because I tie those PR's back to specific tasks the same as I did before I used claude code. I haven't looked at lines of code, total commits, etc. Qualitatively I write more tests and abstract more components than I used to, but those get lumped in to the PRs as I normally try to limit pure refactoring work, and instead tie it into ticketed feature requests or bugs.

I don't count the things I'm doing now that I would have avoided or never finished in the past. For those, of course to me personally those are worth much more psychologically than 3x, but who knows if it's an actual boost. I.e. I took a partially scripted task the other day and fully automated it, and also had it output to the CLI in a kind of dorky sci-fi way because it makes it fun to run it. It didn't take long - 30 minutes? But I certainly didn't _gain_ time doing that, just a little more satisfaction. TBH I'm surprised 3x is so controversial, I thought it was a really cool and far more practical assessment than some of these 10x claims I'm seeing.

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