Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by jcheng on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:09PM (#46583047)

> 95% of Claude and 5% of you, while still better than me (and your average Joe), is nowhere near the same jump from 95% Claude and 5% me.

I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure it is true. Take simonw and tymscar, put them each in charge of a team of 19 engineers (of identical capabilities). Is the result "nowhere near the same jump" as simonw vs. tymscar alone? I think it's potentially a much bigger jump, if there are differences in who has better ideas and not just who can code the fastest.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by tymscar on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:33PM (#46583245)

I agree, however there you don’t compare technical knowledge alone, you also compare managerial skills.

With LLMs its admittedly a bit closer to doing it yourself because the feedback loop is much tighter

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by jcheng on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:00PM (#46591939)

Yeah... and besides managerial skills, also product (using the word loosely) sense, user empathy, clarity of vision, communication skills. They've always been multipliers for programmers, even more so in this moment.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by tymscar on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:02PM (#46591967)

Are they multipliers when you do less of it and offload more of it to the same tool everyone else uses?

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