My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by vitaflo on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:16PM (#44172325)

Unless you’re being paid on a fixed bid it doesn’t matter. Someone else is reaping the rewards of your productivity not you. You’re being paid the same as your half-as-productive coworkers.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by sokoloff on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:36PM (#44173163)

I'm a manager of software engineers. I have absolutely no intention of paying engineer B the same as half-as-productive engineer A.

Figuring out the best way to determine productivity is still a hard problem, but I think it's a category error to think that productivity gains go exclusively to the company.

If all (or even most) of the engineers on your team who were previously your equal become durably twice as productive and your productivity remains unchanged, your income prospects will go down, quite possibly to zero.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by continuational on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:10PM (#44172888)

Isn't this the case regardless of whether you use AI or not? Is this an argument for being less productive?

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by jf22 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:10PM (#44172886)

I think it matters very much if the person next to me is 2x as productive and I'm not.

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