> Anyway I wouldn't say these tools aren't useful, but, I'm deeply skeptical of all the productivity claims because I think people just look at one dimension of it while ignoring all the other important dimensions. Yeah you can generate a lot of crap fast, but most of it is not shippable and making it shippable does take time.

My own stance is that there's never any reason to go fast on anything. Communication has always been the bottleneck. Whether it's about gathering requirements or understanding the purpose of a badly written code, any speed improvements I get has always been a small percentage of the overall progress.

What has helped more is my understanding of the platform and some theoretical knowledge. Because one I get the information, I can quickly derive a solution in my mind. And that solution has always been easy and fast to implement, at least the happy path. 90% of the time taken in coding is always about handling all the edge cases, aka fixing bugs. And writing tests so that you're not easily introducing more bugs.