I can believe that, with personal experience from a non-AI tool! A few years back, I wrote a puzzle solving tool (semaphore decoder) that felt faster than using

I can believe that, with personal experience from a non-AI tool! A few years back, I wrote a puzzle solving tool (semaphore decoder) that felt faster than using a lookup table manually, but was actually very similar in time. Those notes: https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2020/5/28/the-making-of-semaphore-decoder https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2020/5/28/the-making-of-semaphor... Regardless of the speed, it certainly felt easier because I didn't have to think as hard, and maybe that extra freshness would improve productivity for later tasks. I wonder if there's any effect like that for AI coding tools - it makes you happier to be less tired.