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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by mvdtnz on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:10PM (#44806525)
> does it really make that much of an improvement over what we already had with search engines, online documentation and online Q&A sites?

This can't be a serious question? 5 minutes of testing will prove to you that it's not just better, it's a totally new paradigm. I'm relatively skeptical of AI as a general purpose tool, but in terms of learning and asking questions on well documented areas like programming language spec, APIs etc it's not even close. Google is dead to me in this use case.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by bluefirebrand on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:39AM (#44808089)
> This can't be a serious question? 5 minutes of testing will prove to you that it's not just better, it's a totally new paradigm

It is a serious question. I've spent much more than 5 minutes testing this, and I've found that your "totally new paradigm" is for morons

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