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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by jes5199 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:00PM (#44805568)
things backed by Claude Sonnet can get a little further out than Copilot can, and when it’s in agent mode _sometimes_ it will do things like read the library source code to understand the API, or google for the docs

but the principle is the same: if the human isn’t doing theory-building, then no one is

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by QuercusMax on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:45PM (#44814433)
Exactly. I'm in a situation right now where I've inherited a bunch of systems without enough documentation, and nobody knows how some things work. Sure, we've got features to build - but one of the most important things I can possibly do is make sure someone knows how stuff works, and write it down.
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