Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by mkozlows on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:04PM
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The thing that I keep wondering about: If the coding part is 2-5x more productive for you, but the stuff around the coding doesn't change... at some point, it'll have to, right? The cost/benefit of a lot of practices (this article talks about code review, which is a big one) changes a lot if coding becomes significantly easier relative to other tasks.
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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by simonw on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:08PM
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Yes, absolutely. Code used to be more expensive to write, which meant that a lot of features weren't sensible to build - the incremental value they provided wasn't worth the implementation effort.
Now when I'm designing software there are all sorts of things where I'm much less likely to think "nah, that will take too long to type the code for".
Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by coffeebeqn on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:07PM
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Why would it have to? Most of the job is trying to understand what people really want and that’s not any easier than it was 10 or 30 years ago