Why I'm not worried about AI job loss

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by sarchertech on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:46PM (#47010581)

If you have agents that can implement entire features, why is it only 350k loc? Each engineer should be cranking out at least 1 feature a week. If each feature is 1500-2000 lines times 10 engineers that’s 20k lines a week.

If the answer is that the AI cranks out code faster than the team can digest and review it and faster than you can spec out the features, what’s the point? I can see completely shifting your workflow, letting skills atrophy, adopting new dependencies, and paying new vendors if it’s boosting your final output 5 or 10x.

But if it’s a 20% speed up is it worth it?

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Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by wtetzner on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:29PM (#47011573)

Since when do we measure productivity by lines of code?

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Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by sarchertech on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:53AM (#47011982)

It’s not a measure of productivity, but some number of new lines is generally necessary for new functionality. And in my experience AI tends to produce more lines of code than a decent human for similar functionality. So I’d be very shocked if an agent completing a feature didn’t crank out 1500 lines or more.

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