> In my experience, most people who swear LLMs make them 10x more productive are relatively junior front-end developers or serial startup devs who are constantl

> In my experience, most people who swear LLMs make them 10x more productive are relatively junior front-end developers or serial startup devs who are constantly greenfielding new apps. These are totally valid use cases, to be clear, but it means a junior front-end dev and a senior embedded C dev tend to talk past each other when they're discussing AI productivity gains. I agree with this quite a lot. I also think that those greenfield apps quickly become unmanageable by AI as you need to start applying solutions that are unique/tailored for your objective or you want to start abstracting some functionality into building components and base classes that the AI hasn't seen before. I find AI very useful to get me to a from beginner to intermediate in codebases and domains that I'm not familiar with but, once I get the familiarity, the next steps I take mostly without AI because I want to do novel things it's never seen before.