Question: Does anybody here yet personally has less (to) work 'cause of AI?

shaewest 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my org, it's grown the level of work. We had a lot of stuff that was never worth the devtime necessary, but now that's opened up that we can do a lot of this stuff in the background

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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this is underrepresented in everyone's calculations about how AI will affect software engineering. In my experience (and apparently yours as well) this is what many companies are using it for. All those pesky bugs that are minor annoyances but not show-stoppers are getting addressed. They aren't helping us sell more software, but they're dissatisfiers for the customers.

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shaewest an hour ago | parent [-]

Worth looking into 'Jevons Paradox' for more examples of this sort of thing. TL;DR is that as things become more efficient, whether coal, or programmers, the usage of a good increases as demand skyrockets for what it can be used for.

	▲	zer00eyz 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is already going on. When lawyers and writers are talking to me about "docker containers" and "agents" I assure you that the amount of code out there is going to grow.

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WillAdams 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe?

But it's at my day job, and it's because I was able to write a prompt which automates having Copilot review uploaded scanned PDFs of invoices with checks (and the bank line obscured with a pen, so no PII) and then write a batch file which renames the files per a file-naming convention, removing the need to open them in batches of 50, find the Invoice ID, re-save using that filename, then quit and re-launch Adobe Acrobat (if left running, eventually I run into a bug where it stops saving files), then run a .bat file which renames based on Invoice ID as a filename.

Problem of course is I've been running into a limit of number of allowed files per 24 hr. period.

Even if it's not less work, it feels like less effort.

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dools 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve never written so much software

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bigmattystyles 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you the one who wrote it though or just the one who wrote prompts? Not that it matters in the end…

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win311fwg 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you are asking if the machine translated from one language to another for him, the answer is essentially guaranteed to be yes. Inputting raw machine code hasn't been the norm since the 1950s.

	▲	bigmattystyles 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, AI code generation is the same.

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ChrisMarshallNY 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not me. I made this comment, a few days ago[0]:

> It’s funny. I was looking at my GH activity graph. It’s been pretty solid green, for years. I stay busy.

> But since I’ve been using an LLM, it’s been bright green.

> I always check in code manually. I don’t let the LLM do it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843115

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stronglikedan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, but the point is to work just as much and be more productive. No company will ever expect you to work less, unless they are showing you the door.

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hattmall an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have the opposite, because I'm now getting things clients generated that they want me to implement. It's definitely more work and money for me, but it's concerning somewhat because ultimately it's not good for their business. It takes me longer to implement this kind of stuff than it would for me to code it from scratch. That is in a working way, the AI generated code has far more bells and whistles, but also layers and layers of needless complexity that quite literally add no value as in they aren't even a factor of the finished output.

The problem is they are now paying me more, plus paying for the cost of using the AI, and the needless complexity also slows down the employees. So more costs there as well, any future debugging is going to cost far more and at the end of the day they are getting less quality on the core function but far more presentation data that is essentially meaningless.

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singingtoday 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have about 10x more to do.

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esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can if you own the fruit of your labor.

	▲	franze 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am self employed, I work now more than ever.