AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by WD-42 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:18PM (#44800047)

If the 10x thing was true we’d all be on iOS 24 and the typescript Go rewrite would have been done months ago.

But of course that’s ridiculous.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by fulafel on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:28PM (#44800192)

Speed of shipping software and pace of writing code are different things. Shipping software like iOS has a <50% component of programming so Amdahl's law caps the end-to-end improvement rather low, assuming other parts of the process stay the same.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by 9rx on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:25PM (#44800139)

> and the typescript Go rewrite would have been done months ago.

10x is intended to symbolize a multiplier. As Microsoft fired that guy, 10 × 0 is still 0.

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