Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by mgfist on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:09PM
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Yeah I strongly disagree. I want to spend time figuring the things that important to me and my career. I could care less about the one regex I write every year. Especially when I've learned and forgotten the syntax more times than I can count.
Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
by bluefirebrand on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:38AM
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There's a funny quote about regex
"You had a problem. You tried to solve it with regex. Now you have two problems"
1) your original problem 2) your broken regex
I would like to propose an addition
"You had a problem. You tried to solve it with AI generated regex. Now you have three problems"
1) your original problem 2) your broken regex 3) your reliance on AI
That 20 minutes, repeated over and over over the course of a career, is the difference between being a master versus being an amateur
You should value it, even if your employer doesn't.
Your employer would likely churn you into ground beef if there was a financial incentive to, never forget that