| ▲ | simonw 13 hours ago |
| If you can solve "measure programming productivity with data" you'll have cracked one of the hardest problems in our industry. > Why do we need all this tech? Slightly odd question to be asking here on Hacker News! |
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| ▲ | lunar_mycroft 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > If you can solve "measure programming productivity with data" you'll have cracked one of the hardest problems in our industry. That doesn't mean that we have to accept claims that LLMs drastically increase productivity without good evidence (or in the presence of evidence to the contrary). If anything, it means the opposite. |
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| ▲ | simonw 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | At the is point the best evidence we have is a large volume of extremely experienced programmers - like antirez - saying "this stuff is amazing for coding productivity". My own personal experience supports that too. If you're determined to say "I refuse to accept appeal to authority here, I demand a solution to the measuring productivity problem first" then you're probably in for a long wait. | | |
| ▲ | llmslave3 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | There is also plenty of extremely experienced programmers saying "this stuff is useless for programming". | | |
| ▲ | simonw 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If a bunch of people say "it's impossible to go to the moon, nobody has done it" and Buzz Aldrin says "I have been to the moon, here are the photos/video/NASA archives to prove it", who do you believe? | | |
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| ▲ | oulipo2 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Sure, but I wasn't the one pretending to have "facts" on AI... > Slightly odd question to be asking here on Hacker News! It's absolutely not? The first line of question when you work in a domain SHOULD BE "why am I doing this" and "what is the impact of my work on others" |
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| ▲ | simonw 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I think I quoted you out of context there. I'm very much in agreement about asking "what is the impact of my work on others". |
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