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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by fxtentacle on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:08PM (#47480344)
Same here. While LLMs sometimes work surprisingly well, I also encounter edge cases where they fail surprisingly badly multiple times per day. My guess is that other people maybe just don't bother to check what the AI says which would cause them to not notify omission errors.

Like when I was trying to find a physical store again with ChatGPT Pro 5.4 and asked it to prepare a list of candidates, but the shop just wasn't in the list, despite GPT claiming it to be exhaustive. When I then found it manually and asked GPT for advice on how I could improve my prompting in the future, it went full "aggressively agreeable" on me with "Excellent question! Now I can see exactly why my searches missed XY - this is a perfect learning opportunity. Here's what went wrong and what was missing: ..." and then 4 sections with 4 subsections each.

It's great to see the AI reflect on how it failed. But it's also kind of painful if you know that it'll forget all of this the moment the text is sent to me and that it will never ever learn from this mistake and do better in the future.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by jmalicki on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:45PM (#47480706)
"I also encounter edge cases where they fail surprisingly badly multiple times per day. "

If 80% of the time they 10x my output, and the other 20% I can say "well they failed, I guess this one I have to do manually" - that's still an absolutely massive productivity boost.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by maccard on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:57PM (#47481460)
But they don’t 10x my output - they write some code for a problem I/you have already thought about. The hard part isn’t writing the code, it never has been. It’s always been solving and breaking down the problem.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by jmalicki on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:18PM (#47481704)
It's not the hard part, just the tedious part that takes the most time.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by fxtentacle on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:52AM (#47498718)
I can typically type faster than I can think.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by senordevnyc on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:43PM (#47481302)
Like when I was trying to find a physical store again with ChatGPT Pro 5.4 and asked it to prepare a list of candidates

I wonder if it was getting blocked on searches or something, and just didn't tell you.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by fxtentacle on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:55AM (#47498737)
Or maybe the other shops were offering a higher CPC? I heard OpenAI is trying to introduce invisible advertising.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by anonymous_user9 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @11:55PM (#47485356)
>It's great to see the AI reflect on how it failed. But it's also kind of painful...

Keep in mind that the AI is not reflecting, and it has no idea it made a mistake. It's just generating statistically-likely text for "apology" * "ai did not find results".

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