For personal projects and side company, I get to join in on some of the fun and really multiply the amount of work I can get through. I tend to like to iterate on a project or code base for awhile, thinking about it and then tearing things down and rebuilding it until I arrive at what I think is a good implementation. Claude Code has been a really great companion for this. I'd wager that we're going to see a new cohort of successful small or solo-founder companies that come around because of tools like this.
For work, I would say 60% of my company's AI usage is probably useless. Lots of churning out code and documents that generate no real value or are never used a second time. I get the sense that the often claimed "10x more productive" is not actually that, and we are creating a whole flood of problems and technical debt that we won't be able to prompt ourselves out of. The benefit I have mostly seen myself so far is freeing up time and automating tedious tasks and grunt work.
For personal projects and side company, I get to join in on some of the fun and really multiply the amount of work I can get through. I tend to like to iterate on a project or code base for awhile, thinking about it and then tearing things down and rebuilding it until I arrive at what I think is a good implementation. Claude Code has been a really great companion for this. I'd wager that we're going to see a new cohort of successful small or solo-founder companies that come around because of tools like this.
For work, I would say 60% of my company's AI usage is probably useless. Lots of churning out code and documents that generate no real value or are never used a second time. I get the sense that the often claimed "10x more productive" is not actually that, and we are creating a whole flood of problems and technical debt that we won't be able to prompt ourselves out of. The benefit I have mostly seen myself so far is freeing up time and automating tedious tasks and grunt work.