I’ve recently written a message queue <> database connector in Go using Claude Code, checkpointing, recovery, all that stuff built in.

I’d say it made me around 2x as productive.

I don’t think the cynicism of HN is justified, but I think what people forget is that it takes several months of really investing a lot of time into learning how to use AI well. If I see some of the prompts people give, and expect it to work, yeah no wonder that only works for React-like apps.