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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by the_sleaze_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:29AM (#50485866)
People just haven't figured out the tools yet.

I'm doing truly astounding - stupefying - levels of work. Others on my team are actively resistant to my advice but the C Suite isn't.

The numbers are shooting up and to the right but people don't want to get on board. It's too much too fast.

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by hangrybear666 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:27PM (#50486710)
And you're likely not reading any of the code and just making the Black box bigger, which is not a fact I'd be proud to announce publicly.

If you keep doing the black box approach you will be deskilled in the medium term and your input less valuable.

If you are reading the code, explain how you can do the claimed amount of work, since whenever I review output it's a huge bottleneck

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by evdubs on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:56PM (#50487191)
> I'm doing truly astounding - stupefying - levels of work.

> Consider your own reaction to my statement if down voting.

Down votes in reaction to comments like these are almost always due to there being no evidence shared when these claims are made. Share the astounding, stupefying amount of work you're getting done because you've figured out the tools and watch as your down votes magically turn to up votes.

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by tracerbulletx on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:47PM (#50488725)
I shared some and it got downvoted for that too. So I find that hard to believe, if someone wants to comment on why writing an After Effects replacement that does more of what I want in many ways like custom shaders in 2 days is not a suitable example by all means explain it to me, because I find it insanely valuable to be able to do that. If anything people don't really like people posting their AI built products because anyone can do it, it's not that special, so it kind of proves the point.
Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by malfist on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:59PM (#50487251)
Every engineer believes they are a 10X engineer. What makes thinking your a 100X engineer with AI any different? Or any more accurate?

Recall the study done with open source devs, every one of them believed they were more productive with AI than without, yet the net effect of AI resulted in a 19% loss in productivity.

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by tracerbulletx on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:17PM (#50488377)
Im going to be annoying and show you a free open source vibe coded project to make a point. The viewer part of this project predates AI, it took me years just to get the viewer to be great. I built this Video compositor in 2 days that does beat matching, parameter automation, shader effect layers, auto looping and a ton of other things I need when im video editing, cancelled my after effects account and doing this is something I do professionally. There is absolutely 0 chance of a single person doing that in a month, let alone 2 days, before Opus level models. Its not really cloned from anything other than my experiences doing video editing.

https://lowkeyviewer.com/studio/

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by halfcat on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:03PM (#50487310)
> The numbers are shooting up and to the right but people don't want to get on board.

Revenue is one of those numbers, right? Right??

> It's too much too fast.

Yes, that’s exactly what being over-leveraged looks like.

“The number one indicator of fragility is leverage” -Nassim Taleb

We have one of you at my work. He’s a god, but for the wisdom.

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by dogleash on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:26PM (#50488485)
> Edit. Consider your own reaction to my statement if down voting.

For my entire career I've been reading the same flavors of unsourced non-falsifiable claims about how someone has the correct insight into hype new tech, and they're just crushing it. And leaving those dumb nobodies behind.

It doesn't even matter if the tech becomes ubiquitous success or a flop. The tech's success wouldn't justify the comment. It's not a meaningful contribution to conversation. It's an invitation to play the hype game.