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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by zahlman on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:38PM (#44800375)
>but also they were measuring between best and worst, not best and average as it's used nowadays.

Depending on the environment, I can imagine the worst devs being net negative.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by smrtinsert on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:23PM (#44802991)
And they get promoted too. Multiple times I've seen people get promoted for decisions that doom the company years later. Considering all the various departments and people that go into supporting these net negative engineers, more people are net negative than they think.
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