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/coders with LLMs

A stat currently in the zeitgeist: LLMs improve coder productivity by 40-50%. (1) (2) (by Microsoft, even)

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The understated implication is that this is an average, and that high-leverage tools with an extremely high skill cap1 will inherently result in extremely high variance.

And that it’s no simple task to Just Integrate a powerful new tool into your workflow.

Excel? Photoshop? vim keybinds?

It takes time before you are able to fully understand and execute the leverage this tool provides.


One can accelerate the process by choosing to.

How effective is the average person at using their language to manifest the outcomes they desire as compared to the extreme outliers? Tony Robbins1(https://youtu.be/NuEruhJUsPs), Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin?

How effective would the average person be at accurately evaluating the magnitude of that skill gap?

Footnotes

  1. The enormity of the creative surface area. It’s a completely new paradigm. The input language is language. The skill cap of language is also incredibly high. ↩ ↩2