It took me a month , despite having done prompt engineering for work the 2 years prior, to hit the real starting line of Claude code productivity
Basically, the ability to order my thoughts into a task list long & clear enough for the LLM to follow that I can be working on 3 or so of these in parallel, and maybe email. Any individual run may be faster or slower than I can do it manually, but critically, they take less total human time / attention. No individual technique is fundamentally tricky here, but it is still a real skill.
If you read the article, the author is simply not there, and sees what they know as only 1 weeks worth of knowledge. So for their learning rate .. maybe they need 3x longer of learning & experience?
Basically, the ability to order my thoughts into a task list long & clear enough for the LLM to follow that I can be working on 3 or so of these in parallel, and maybe email. Any individual run may be faster or slower than I can do it manually, but critically, they take less total human time / attention. No individual technique is fundamentally tricky here, but it is still a real skill.
If you read the article, the author is simply not there, and sees what they know as only 1 weeks worth of knowledge. So for their learning rate .. maybe they need 3x longer of learning & experience?