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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by MBCook on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:31PM (#50456011)
I’m not sure I’ve really seen it within the community of programmers. It was certainly more there early on when the models were much worse, but I’ve seen it fading.

I have seen it among “the general public“. I’ve seen normal people complain about things in open-source projects or other contexts where to whatever degree they accepted programming took time before now they think it’s all just a magic wand with Claude, no matter the level of complexity.

I haven’t heard a single person at my company in management at any layer complain that we’re not working fast enough now that we have AI. One of my friends has 100% told me their management is pulling that. The management over there is on the everyone should do four times as many tickets, and use at least X amount of tokens per day. otherwise you’re slacking off train.

It’s all in who you talk to.

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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by MisterPea on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:44PM (#50456171)
I think it's an age thing as well.

Engineers that have only started full time work post 2023 haven't experienced the counterfactual of not having AI.

They see all the mundane business/eng bottlenecks that are pervasive now and don't truly know how much better it is now than before

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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by runarberg on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:13PM (#50457247)
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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by MBCook on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:39PM (#50457533)
That’s not the case at my company at all. It’s available to use but they’re not forcing it or firing people who aren’t using it. It’s just a tool we can use.
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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by keeda on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:53PM (#50460024)
If you follow various data sources like the StackOverflow developer survey or DORA from 2023 onwards, by this theory about 77% - 90% have been fired or pushed out of the industry.
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