If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or build better products?

Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by maccard on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:29PM (#47483477)

I mean, I don’t know how much less scope I can give it. The next step is writing the 5 lines of code I want it to write.

I also clearly said I didn’t allow it one output, I gave it the compile error message, it changed a different line, I told it it was at the affected line and to check the docs. Claude code then tried to query the DLL for the function, abandoned that and then did something else incorrect.

I’m literally asking it to install a package and copy the example from the readme

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by wrs on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:11PM (#47483808)

I understand (and don’t know what to say beyond “that’s weird”). I was just reacting to your equating “the first try sometimes doesn’t compile” with “it often fails”. That’s only a failure if you stop at that point.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by maccard on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:36AM (#47486762)

In the first comment you’ll see that it didn’t compile, I prompted to fix it and eventually fixed it myself. When I asked it to proceed to the next task it blew away my fix and left it in a broken state.

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