> Even a 1 month project with one good senior engineer working on it will get 20+ different files and 5,000+ loc.
For what it's worth, I mostly work on projects in the 100-200 files range, at 20-40k LoC. When using proper tooling with appropriate models, it boosts my productivity by at least 2x (being conservative). I've experimented with this by going a few days without using them, then using them again.
Definitely far from the massive codebases many on here work on, small beans by HN standards. But also decidedly not just writing one-off scripts.
For what it's worth, I mostly work on projects in the 100-200 files range, at 20-40k LoC. When using proper tooling with appropriate models, it boosts my productivity by at least 2x (being conservative). I've experimented with this by going a few days without using them, then using them again.
Definitely far from the massive codebases many on here work on, small beans by HN standards. But also decidedly not just writing one-off scripts.