This has been my observation too. Because I'm chatting it feels like I'm not working, so any output can be "productive" in that context but I'm hyper aware of all the negative time here. Correcting, pushing it back to the prompt, reminding it that it doesn't have full context so do what I told you not what you think, and then verifying it and correcting it (always) seems to take longer than just doing the work myself
I find this is the difference between people that 2-4x their productivity and improve their shipping quality vs those that don’t find AI very useful. It’s all about the process, the adversarial tension, and the documentation driving the process. The good code squeezes out of that pressure like juice being pressed from fruit.
