Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by baobeta2907 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:43PM
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This is actually true at my company. They expect employees to be 10× more productive now that we have AI.
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Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by jdlshore on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:01AM
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I’ve had people tell me, with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements. This is at the executive and VC level. The mania is extreme.
Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by miraculixx on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:12AM
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So then they should get 10-100x more revenue, now that AI does all the marketing and selling.
Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by Yopolo on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:53AM
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I for sure do plenty of things with AI a lot faster.
Instead of searching some linux issue, i will prompt claude to generate a small analyser script for checking wha tlinux i have, i will tell it what hardware i have and it fixed my issue in like 5 minutes? That would have been a lot longer before.
Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by aryehof on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:56AM
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> … with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements.
A great alternative future to look forward to - 1 employee expected to do the work of 10-100. Those others fired to save money.
Re:Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
by camdenreslink on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:15AM
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You can be 10x more productive if you don’t verify anything the LLM generates and just YOLO it into your codebase. I wouldn’t recommend it.