How the AI Bubble Bursts

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by gruez on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:41AM (#47574211)

>Seriously, what value are tokens providing other than justifying layoffs. Concretely. Today.

It's adding tests for me and doing medium complexity refactors that I'd otherwise have to spend hours on

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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by michaelcampbell on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:51AM (#47574344)

Same, and constructing at least drafts of huge documents that I can iteratively fine-tune that have (at least last week) saved me 10's of hours.

And based on reality (code) rather than my feelz of what I vaguely remember the code to have been doing in some long past.

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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by aiedwardyi on Monday March 30, 2026 @10:06AM (#47574553)

This matches what I'm seeing too. The refactoring and test generation use cases are where it actually saves real time. The tricky part is longer sessions where you lose track of context window and quota usage.

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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by datsci_est_2015 on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:49PM (#47577460)

These example put in the category of “best IDE ever created, by a wide margin” - but not “replacement for the programming workforce”.

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