Comment by AIorNot
I’ve built 2 SaaS applications with LLM coding one of which was expanded and release to enterprise customers and is in good use today - note I’ve got years of dev experience and I follow context and documentation prompts and I’m using common LLM languages like typescript and python and react and AWS infra
Now it requires me to fully review all code and understand what the LLM is doing at the functional, class level and api level- in fact it works better at the method or component level for me and I had a lot of cleanup work (and lots of frustration with the models) on the codebase but overall there’s no way that I could equal the velocity I have now without it
I think the other important step is to reject code your engineers submit that they can't explain for a large enterprise saas with millions of lines of code. I myself reject I'd say 30% of the code the LLMs generate but the power is in being able to stay focused on larger problems while rapidly implementing smaller accessory functions that enable that continued work without stopping to add another engineer to the task.
I've definitely 2-4X'd depending on the task. For small tasks I've definitely 20X'd myself for some features or bugfixes.