Recently used Cursor/Claude sonnet to port ~30k lines of EOL Livescript/Hyperscript to Typescript/JSX in less than 2 weeks. That would have took at least several months otherwise. Definitively a force multiplier, for this kind of repetitional work.

Shame that you can't probably open-source this, that would have been a hugely impressive case study.

And yeah, out of all the LLMs, it seems that Claude is the best when it comes to programming.

Do not know how you are using them? It speeded up my development around 8-10x, things i wouldnt have done earlier i'm doing now, e let it do by the AI; writing boilerplate etc. Just great!

8-10x?! That's quite weird if you ask me.

I just used Claude recently. Helped me with an obscure library and with the hell that is JWT + OAuth through the big vendors. Definitely saved me a few hours and I am grateful, but those cases are rare.

I developed things which i would have never started without AI because i could see upfront that there would be a lot of mundane/exhausting tasks

Amusingly, lately I did something similar, though I still believe my manual code is better in Elixir. :)

I'm open to LLMs being a productivity enabler. Recently I started occasionally using them for that as well -- sparingly. I more prefer to use them for taking shortcuts when I work with libraries whose docs are lacking.

...But I did get annoyed at the "programming as a profession is soon dead!" people. I do agree with most other takes on LLMs, however.

Sonnet 3.5 v2 was released in October. Most people just use this. First and only one that can do passable front end as well.

Thank you, I'll check it out.