You were probably deficient in RESEARCH skills before. No offense to you, since I was also like this once. LLMs research and put the results on the plate. Yes, for people who were deficient in research skills, I can see 2-3x improvements.
Note1: I have "expert" level research skills. But LLMs still help me in research, but the boost is probably 1.2x max. But
Note2: By research, I mean googling, github search, forum search, etc. And quickly testing using jsfiddle/codepen, etc.
no worries, I do not get offended quickly.
But I also think you are overestimating your RESEARCH skills, even if you are very good at research, I am sure you can't read 25 files in parallel, summarize them (even if its missing some details) in 1 minute and then come up with somewhat working solution in the next 2 minutes.
I am pretty sure, humans can't comprehend reading 25 code files with each having at least 400 lines of non-boilerplate code in 2 minutes. LLM can do it and its very very good at summarizing.
I can even steer its summarizing skills by prompting where to focus on when its reading files (because now I can iterate 2-3 times for each RESEARCH task and improve my next attempt based on shortcomings in the previous attempt)
OK, it's not just RESEARCH, but "RESEARCHability" of the source content [in this case code], and also critical analysis ability [not saying you are deficient in anything, speaking in general terms].
In this example, if the 25 files are organized nicely, and I had I nice IDE that listed class/namespace members of each file neatly, I might take 30 minutes to understand the overall structure.
Morever, If I critically analyzed this, I would ask "how many times does this event of summarizing 25 files happen"? I mean, are we changing codebases every day? No, it's a one time cost. Moreover, manually going through will provide insight not returned by LLM.
Obviously, every case is different, and perhaps you do need to RESEARCH new codebases often, I dunno!
Ok Mr. Expert Level Researcher, go back and read the comment of parent again to find out that it has nothing to do with deficiency in research skills.
Lol! Didn't mean any harm, just giving my 2cents!
please don't change your comment constantly (or at maybe add UPDATE 1/2/3), because you had different words before, like you were saying something in this fashion:
* you probably lack good RESEARCH skills
* I can see at most 1.25x improvements - now it is 2-3x
By updating your comment you are making my reply irrelevant to your past response
Apologies, I changed this within a ~10 minute period. Never knew you would actually see it so fast.