| ▲ | QuadrupleA 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it with more things I do wonder if productivity with AI coding has really gone up, or if it just gives the illusion of that, and we take on more projects and burn ourselves out? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ghurtado 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I do wonder if productivity with AI coding has really gone up Here's the thing: we never had a remotely sane way to measure productivity of a software engineer for reasons that we all understand, and we don't have it now. Even if we had it, it's not the sort of thing that management would even use: they decide how productive you are based on completely unrelated criteria, like willingness to work long hours and keeping your mouth shut when you disagree. If you ask those types whether productivity has gone up with AI, they'll probably say something like "of course, we were able to let go a third of our programmers and nothing really seems to have changed" "Productivity" became a poisoned word the moment that the suits realized what a useful weapon it was, and that it was impossible to challenge. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | timacles an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What society and America is about to realize is that it really doesn’t matter how productive you are at software and technological innovations when systemic things outside of the economic system are eroding. It doesn’t matter how fast we can make our widgets and chatbots when what you need is to have a self sufficient workforce. We have outsourced everything material and valuable for society. Now we are left with industries of gambling, ad machines and pharmaceuticals with a government that is functionally bankrupt and politicians that have completely sold out | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | agumonkey 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A blend of both. You do create more, but the goalposts are always one more step away. ps: it's strange that YouTubers are talking about the same thing. People in different dev circles. Agentic feels like doom ide scroll. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | ErroneousBosh 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I do wonder if productivity with AI coding has really gone up, or if it just gives the illusion of that, and we take on more projects and burn ourselves out? It definitely hasn't for me. I spent about an hour today trying to use AI to write something fairly simple and I'm still no further forward. I don't understand what problem AI is supposed to solve in software development. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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