The x3.16 Developer | Part 1

TL;DR Taking the time to figure out what has value beyond this specific task and feeding it back into your setup is the single highest-leverage thing you can do. 1. The Promise and the Gap Everyone's chasing the x10 developer these days. AI can make you ten times productive, they say. Ship ten times faster. Do the work of a team. When I started using AI for coding, the obvious move was to go faster: wire the best LLM to the codebase, give it a task suitable in size and complexity, and watch it change the code faster than I can keep track of. That didn't work.