Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ...
by foobarchu on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:32PM
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That's why I don't like to claim massive productivity boosts, personally. It's helped me out with the tedious bits that are still necessary. It's also great as an idea board, where I ask for some sample approaches to a problem. That cuts way down on research time, even if a few of the options given are dead ends because e.g. they use an API that doesn't exist.
But that's the hard part! You can only eke out moderate productivity gains by automating the tedium of actually writing out the code, because it's a small fraction of software engineering.