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I wonder how many lines of code you write in a day. Most PR I’ve seen has a diff in the lowe 2 digits, unless it’s refactoring or formatting.


If I had to guess, probably a couple hundred lines a day, maybe more if I get in a groove or have a deadline.

But with an LLM, that number goes to about 500 or so, 200 of which are real code and not definitions of some kind. Truthfully, that’s where the LLMs shine. I have this enum with 50 variants, and need to build a dictionary (with further constraints and more complex objects). That shit takes forever even with cut & paste, unless you code with code, and those one-offs aren’t my cup of tea anymore.




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