> They are experienced open source developers, working on their own projects
I just started working on a 3-month old codebase written by someone else, in a framework and architecture I had never used before
Within a couple hours, with the help of Claude Code, I had already created a really nice system to replicate data from staging to local development. Something I had built before in other projects, and I new that manually it would take me a full day or two, especially without experience in the architecture
That immediately sped up my development even more, as now I had better data to test things locally
Then a couple hours later, I had already pushed my first PR. All code following the proper coding style and practices of the existing project and the framework. That PR, would have taken me at least a couple of days and up to 2 weeks to fully manually write out and test
So sure, AI won’t speed everyone or everything up. But at least in this one case, it gave me a huge boost
As I keep going, I expect things to slow down a bit, as the complexity of the project grows. However, it’s also given me the chance to get an amazing jumpstart
I just started working on a 3-month old codebase written by someone else, in a framework and architecture I had never used before
Within a couple hours, with the help of Claude Code, I had already created a really nice system to replicate data from staging to local development. Something I had built before in other projects, and I new that manually it would take me a full day or two, especially without experience in the architecture
That immediately sped up my development even more, as now I had better data to test things locally
Then a couple hours later, I had already pushed my first PR. All code following the proper coding style and practices of the existing project and the framework. That PR, would have taken me at least a couple of days and up to 2 weeks to fully manually write out and test
So sure, AI won’t speed everyone or everything up. But at least in this one case, it gave me a huge boost
As I keep going, I expect things to slow down a bit, as the complexity of the project grows. However, it’s also given me the chance to get an amazing jumpstart