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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by SatvikBeri on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:53PM (#44789235)
A new coworker solved a problem that we'd basically been unable to fix for 2 years, and we were relying on workarounds. This was especially impressive because it was totally outside his expertise. When I asked how he did it, a big part of his process was using LLMs.

For the most part, I've noticed my LLM-using coworkers producing better PRs, but I haven't noticed anyone producing more.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by subarctic on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:39PM (#44791084)
That's the thing, there's a big difference between using AI to help you solve a problem and using it to write code that you don't understand (and not take the time to understand it). It would suck to be reviewing someone else's PR and find out you're putting more effort into understanding their code than they did. But these are powerful tools and they're not going away anytime soon
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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by dragonwriter on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:43PM (#44791120)
> It would suck to be reviewing someone else's PR and find out you're putting more effort into understanding their code than they did.

It does, but that experience was a real thing long before AI-generated code.

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