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How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity?
Rainer Rainkhardt3mo1411

Honestly, what you claim doesn't make any sense. If you are non-engineer and you can just one-shot entire single purpose apps just like that.

Then it should be observable in the real world, right? Since billions of people get access to one-shotting entire single purpose apps. Let's say, we have 50 000 of people who do that actually, I'm downplaying the numbers, because actually, there are millions of people trying to do so. But let's say it's just measly 50 000. Don't you think that we would get a flood of simple but useful single purpose apps every couple of months?

Since you are a layman, I want to explain something. Simple single purpose apps, are the best and one of the most in-demand kinds of apps on the market.

For example, you'll be surprised how EASY is to create a messenger really, it's so primitive, it's possible to get basics for it it working in just the weekends. If I were to stream it on Twitch, I'm more than sure I can create a simple messenger in a single stream, with login, texting and sending images functionality. And I'll have enough time to deploy it even.

But sadly, we don't observe this in the real world, this can indicate a couple of things:

1. You may be overstating what you can actually achieve as a layman with Cursor.
2. Those simple single purpose apps are completely useless demos that aren't worth using at all. 

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