After 12+ months of using Claude Code & Ollama daily, I’m still not certain they are as big of a productivity boost for coding as when I added a second monitor back in the day.

There absolutely is a productivity gain for me, especially when it comes to doing research in the code base, and being more ambitious about starting big changes and refactors. I wouldn’t want to go without Claude Code in my workflow

I’ll definitely try any new models and tools, but there’s a loss of flow state with agentic coding tools, which offsets much of the gains. It’s definitely a 2 steps forward, 1 step back situation.