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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by paulcole on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:32AM (#44799338)
> but I've never found those 10x claims convincing

Who's making these claims?

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by WD-42 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:47PM (#44800515)
There was a YC video just a few months ago where a bunch of jergoffs sat in a circle and talked about engineers being 10 to 100x as effective as before. Im sure google will bring it up.
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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by paulcole on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:05PM (#44805023)
> Im sure google will bring it up.

It didn’t.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by WD-42 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:22AM (#44807985)
Found it https://youtu.be/IACHfKmZMr8
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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by paulcole on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:23AM (#44811022)
So this whole discussion started because some guy got triggered by a thinly veiled advertisement on a podcast run by a VC firm?

I’ll admit this is not helping the case of “but people are saying…”

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by WD-42 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:25AM (#44812470)
You asked who’s making these silly claims, I provided one example of YC partners doing it. Not sure who got triggered or what advertising you are talking about, but there you go.
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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by paulcole on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:15PM (#44820214)
What you showed me is the equivalent of somebody saying, “People are claiming my life would be better if I drank more Pepsi” and the underlying evidence turned out to be a Pepsi commercial.

You understand what YC is right?

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