AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by alfiedotwtf on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:44PM (#44803289)

Let’s extreme this further - why would the company exist in the first place? The customers of said company pay them because they don’t do the service themselves - but in the future when it’s laughably easy to vibe code anything your heart desires, their customers will just build the service themselves that they used to outsource!

tl;dr: in the future when vibe coding works 100% of the time, logically the only companies that will exist are the ones that have processes that AI can’t do, because all the other parts of the supply chain can all be done in-house

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by ffsm8 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:55PM (#44803424)

That scenario is a lot further out compared to what I was talking about.

It's conceivable that thats going to happen, eventually. but that'd likely require models a lot more advanced to what we have now.

The agent approach with lead devs administering and merging the code the agents made is feasible with today's models. The missing part is the tooling around the models and the development practices that that standardizes this workflow.

That's what I'd expect to take around 5 yrs to settle.

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