Are You Actually Getting Better at Coding — Or Just Faster at Generating It?
I'll be real with you. I've used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Replit — pretty much everything that's come out in the last couple of years.
And for a while, every new tool felt like a che
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Apurv Julaniya
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The METR study showed experienced devs were 19% slower with AI tools despite predicting they'd be faster. Does that match your experience or completely contradict it? I'm genuinely curious: Are you in the "AI made me way more productive" camp or the "it adds more overhead than it saves" camp? Also — what's your current stack? Cursor? Claude Code? Copilot? Replit? Something open source? Drop your setup and your honest take below 👇 No right answers here — just real developer experiences.