Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by simonw on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:47AM
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Those things don't really help with getting unstuck, especially if the reason you are struck is that there tedious code that you anticipate writing and don't want to deal with.
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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by orwin on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:55AM
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Exactly. My two worst roadblocks are the beginning of a new feature when I procrastinate way too much (I'm a bit afraid of choosing a design/architecture and committing to it) and towards the end when I have to fix small regressions and write tests, and I procrastinate because I just don't want to. AI solved the second roadblock 100% of the time, and help with design decisions enough to be useful (Claude4 at least). The code in the middle is a plus, but tbh I often do it myself (unless it's frontend code).