AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by calebkaiser on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:06PM (#44788618)

I don't think this is an AI specific thing. I work in the field, and so I'm around some of the most enthusiastic adopters of LLMs, and from what I see, engineering cultures surrounding LLM usage typically match the org's previous general engineering culture.

So, for example, by and large the orgs I've seen chucking Claude PRs over the wall with little review were previously chucking 100% human written PRs over the wall with little review.

Similarly, the teams I see effectively using test suites to guide their code generation are the same teams that effectively use test suites to guide their general software engineering workflows.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by throwanem on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:21PM (#44788819)

How long are you spending with a given team, and where per se in their "AI lifecycle?" I would expect (for example) a sales engineer to see this differently than a support engineer, if support engineers still existed.

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