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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Daishiman on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:43AM (#48157173)
It may be the case. I've been around in the industry for 25 years and I barely code. I babysit multiple instances of Claude and we were very purposeful and deliberate in altering our workflows for it; we made our local dev environments capable of spinning up multiple instances to work from parallel worktrees. We added MCP servers to let LLMs observe our CI, Jira and deployments.

Most of our time is spent doing spec work, planning, and injecting the proper context into LLMs. Like the OP, our metrics have drastically improved the time for delivery of new features, slightly improved bug resolution times, and now we're bottlenecked by needing more code review and manual QA to handle the workload.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by throwaway2037 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:49AM (#48157204)
You had me until "manual QA". What is special about your product that your QA needs to be manual in 2026?
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Daishiman on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:52AM (#48158261)
Insurance systems with dozens of integrations and multiple iterations of UI frameworks with QA that has deep domain knowledge who understands how the pieces interact with each other in ways most devs don’t.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Ekaros on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:31AM (#48158513)
Why is there manual QA step? If AI was that good you would go straight to prod. Actually have agent deploy live with full control over the whole production environment.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by dakolli on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:21PM (#48162063)
Sounds like a miserable existence.
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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by Daishiman on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:46PM (#48211374)
A miserable experience is debugging 15-year-old code across three systems by yourself. Claude is _excellent_ at reading reams of old code.
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