AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by hathawsh on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:54AM (#44799655)

Yes.

Me, typing into a search engine, a few years ago: "Postgres CTE tutorial"

Me, typing into any AI engine, in 2025: "Here is my schema and query; optimize the query using CTEs and anything else you think might improve performance and readability"

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by alexchantavy on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:34PM (#44801309)

And nowadays if you type that into a search engine you may be overwhelmed with ads or articles of varying quality that you'll need to read and deeply understand to adapt to your use-case.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by bluefirebrand on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#44802517)

> you'll need to read and deeply understand to adapt to your use-case

This sort of implies you are not reading and deeply understanding your LLM output, doesn't it?

I am pretty strongly against that behavior

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by alexchantavy on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:39AM (#44808086)

I didn't say that. When you're trying to get a job done, it's time consuming to sift through a long tutorial online because a big part of that time is spent determining whether its garbage and whether its solving the exact problem that you need to solve. IME the LLM helps with both of those problems.

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