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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by johnfn on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:05PM (#44164245)
Who said "unlimited powers", other than you? That seems like an intentional distortion of the article, which says "LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write". Doing most of my tedious work is very different than "unlimited powers".

I use AI to chew through tedious work all the time. In fact, I let an agent do some work just before I checked HN to read your claim that it can't do that. Everyone at my job does the same, perhaps modulo checking HN. But there's no 'unlimited power' to show you - we're just about 30% faster than we used to be.

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by Retric on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:49PM (#44164634)
You might be 30% faster, but not everyone is doing your job with your skill set. I suspect the range is like -5% to 100%, the question nobody can answer is what the average is.

In decades of programming I’ve written very little tedious code. I’ve seen people doing that bloated “factory factory provider factory” nonsense and avoided it like the plague. So that’s as much me being picky about what and who I work with as it is how I approach problems.