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Re:Is it a bubble? by jimbokun on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:20PM (#46226024)
Ah, I was going to say it’s impossible to get 5x increase in productivity, because writing code takes up less than 20% of a developer’s time. But I can understand that kind of improvement on just the coding part.

The trick now is deciding what code to write quickly enough to keep Claude and friends busy.

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Re:Is it a bubble? by XenophileJKO on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:09PM (#46226824)
I will say for example now at work.. if I see a broken window I have an AI fix it. This is a recent habit for me, so I can't say it will stick, but I'm fixing issues in many more adjacent code bases then I normally would.

It used to be "hey I found an issue..", now it is like "here is a pr to fix an issue I saw". The net effort to me is only slightly more. I usually have to identify the problem and that is like 90% of fixing it.

Add to the fact that now I can have an AI take a first pass at identifying the problem with probably an 80%+ success rate.

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