Practitioner Reflection: 40 Months Into AI Era, Still 'Genuinely Unsure' About Productivity Gains
lzon.ca (via Hacker News)·low signal
A practitioner blog post trending on HN (194 points, 116 comments) offers an honest 40-month assessment since ChatGPT launched. The author finds Claude Code 'unambiguously good' for natural language coding but admits being 'genuinely and frustratingly unsure how much improvement it's actually creating' after accounting for scope creep and revision overhead. Predicts canceling Claude Pro subscription for local LLMs.