I'm more and more confident I must be doing something wrong. I (re)tried using Claude about a month ago and I simply stopped using it after about two weeks because on one hand productivity did not increase(perhaps even decreased), but on the other hand it made me angry because of the time wasted on its mistakes. I was also mostly using it on Rust code, so I'm even more surprised about the article. What am I doing wrong? I've been mostly using the chat functionality and auto-complete, is there some kind of secret feature I'm missing?
I'd love to watch a video of someone using these tools well, because I am not getting much out of it. They save some time, sometimes, but they're nowhere near the 5x boost that some people claim.
I don't know what everyone is doing. Mine is like a 10X-100X force multiplier. I enjoy coding enormously more now that all the drudgery is removed.
And I might not be the best coder, by far, but I've got over 40 years experience at this crap in practically every language going.
We can quibble about the exact number; 1.2x vs 5x vs 10x, but there's clearly something there.