“I've learned more in the past, probably even a year, than the previous five years combined.”

Peter Mattis · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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Measured personal coding output increase after adopting AI tools

learned more in the past year than the previous five years combined; wrote 100,000 lines of code per year previously

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