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Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by oceanplexian on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @02:15PM (#41312742)
300% is a massive underestimate for someone who is AI native and understands how to prompt and interpret results correctly. In the past I would spend 30-40 minutes hunting around on StackOverflow to get the syntax of a difficult database query or bust out a long regular expression.

With AI I can do the same in 15 seconds. We’re talking a 120x increase in productivity not a 3x improvement.

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Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by jononor on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:56PM (#41314127)
Do you spend 100% of your time on such tasks? If not, then Amdahl wants a word with you about your overall productivity gains.
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Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by m_fayer on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:19AM (#41317967)
Agreed, I don’t know why people are so down on ai as a coding assistant here. I concur with everything you said, and will add that now I also have a service that will produce, on-demand, the exact documentation that I need at the exact level of abstraction, and then I can interrogate it at will. These things are huge time savers.
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