For me it's insanely much faster. Maybe 5-10x depending on the task.
One thing I do is try to keep prompting. I do take time to look at the code and think if I need it, but when I'm unsure of what to do I use the LLM to help me work through it. Here is a problem, I'm not sure whether to do x or y or something else, what do you think?
It will reason around the issue and generally come up with some good suggestions. If I'm not happy I'll just talk to it further, explain what I don't like etc until we get to something I'm happy with.
I try to avoid being super specific and spending tons of time on prompts, rather I give it a vague description of what I want and ask it to plan the change, then I review the plan which will usually be pretty close, explain what I want different and when I'm happy I tell it to do it.
I do think it helps a lot that I've already put in a lot of work to build a clean and consistent application, for many problems there is already a ready-made solution. The core architecture is already there so mostly it just expands on it.
One thing I do is try to keep prompting. I do take time to look at the code and think if I need it, but when I'm unsure of what to do I use the LLM to help me work through it. Here is a problem, I'm not sure whether to do x or y or something else, what do you think?
It will reason around the issue and generally come up with some good suggestions. If I'm not happy I'll just talk to it further, explain what I don't like etc until we get to something I'm happy with.
I try to avoid being super specific and spending tons of time on prompts, rather I give it a vague description of what I want and ask it to plan the change, then I review the plan which will usually be pretty close, explain what I want different and when I'm happy I tell it to do it.
I do think it helps a lot that I've already put in a lot of work to build a clean and consistent application, for many problems there is already a ready-made solution. The core architecture is already there so mostly it just expands on it.