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AI Just make it harder to work at tech

The amount of useless documents you had to filter yourself through, and the amount of bad code you had to work around were already massive.

But with AI, its out of proportions. I got served with 6+ documents for requirements for some feature that could be described in 2 sentences. Those documents were useless, obviously.

I do not understand why we are making it so much harder to do everything and calling it effective.

( 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:AI Just make it harder to work at tech by chrisjj on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:02AM (#46854634)
> But with AI, its out of proportions. I got served with 6+ documents for requirements for some feature that could be described in 2 sentences.

I think the idea is that you use an "AI" summariser.

Re:AI Just make it harder to work at tech by viraptor on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:29AM (#46854776)
Have you told the author your feedback? Nothing's going to change otherwise - they may think they did something helpful.
Re:AI Just make it harder to work at tech by frankhsu on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:29AM (#46854781)
Agree

AI is helping us playing hide and seek with infomation