So true, as a mere software developer on a payroll: I might spend 10 minutes doing a task with AI rather than an hour (w/o AI), but trust me - I am going to keep 50 minutes to myself, not deliver 5 more tasks )))) And when I work on my hobby project - having one AI agent crawling around my codebase is like watching a baby in a glassware shop. 10 babies? no thanks!

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renegade-otter 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Same. I am doing this as Claude knocked out two annoying yak shaving tasks I did not really want to do. Required careful review and tweaking.

Claiming that you now have 10 AI minions just wrecking your codebase sounds like showboating. I do not pity the people who will inherit those codebases later.

	▲	dormento 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Disclaimer: not an """AI""" enthusiast. I think it takes away the joy of coding, which makes me sad. With that out of the way, I don't think there will be "people inheriting codebases" for much longer, at least not in the vast majority of business-related software needs. People will still be useful insofar as you need someone responsible and able to be sued for contract breach, failures and whatnot, but we'll see more and more agents inheriting previous agents codebases. And in the other hand, "small software" that caters to particular customized workflows can be produced entirely by LLMs. I can totally relate how some of us would want to be off raising goats, planting watermelons or whatever.

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ecb_penguin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I might spend 10 minutes doing a task with AI rather than an hour (w/o AI), but trust me - I am going to keep 50 minutes to myself, not deliver 5 more tasks

It's wild that you just outright admitted this. Seems like your employer would do best to let you go and find someone that can use tools to increase their productivity.

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scottLobster 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome. More than once I've had my hand slapped professionally for taking ownership of something my immediate superiors wanted to micromanage. Fine, here I was trying to take something off their plate that was in my wheelhouse, but if that's where they want to draw the line I guess I'll just give less of a shit.

If you actively deny your employees ownership, then the relationship becomes purely transactional.

It's also possible OP is just a bad employee, but I've met far more demoralized good employees than malicious bad ones over the course of my career.

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CuriouslyC 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot of orgs are bad about giving credit to employees for productivity, what's the point of working 4x harder if it'll just result in a few % point difference in yearly raise, and you're still going to have to job hop to get a respectable pay bump? Might as well work less and spend time polishing your resume/side projects to make yourself as employable as possible. This is 100% the fault of poor incentives on the part of employers.

	▲	ecb_penguin a day ago \| parent [-]
		> you're still going to have to job hop to get a respectable pay bump This doesn't exist in a vacuum. I do tasks now for future interviews. > Might as well work less and spend time polishing your resume/side projects to make yourself as employable as possible. I don't know what jobs you're applying to, but unless your side project is successful, nobody cares. What they do care about is what you did at your last employer. > This is 100% the fault of poor incentives on the part of employers. The people who have your mindset are the people perpetually stuck at poor employers.