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If you write code yourself your productivity is limited by how much code you can write. If you read/review code generated by AI, then it's limited by how much y

• tempodox 1y ago
  > productivity is limited by how much code you can write. So you measure “productivity” in lines of code? Say no more.
• BrunoRB 1y ago
  I'm not clear on the point you're making, but I do know that reading/reviewing is often more time-consuming and harder than actually writing code - at least if you're doing it right. Anyhow, I think we all just got too mesmerized with the LLM magic tricks and are slowly realizing that in real software writing we simply got a "slightly better stackoverflow". The claims of hyper-productivity are the same old ones of "I just copy and paste stuff other people wrote", i.e. people are just writing simple PoCs and really bad software - it's mostly bullshiters that couldn't and still can't do fizzbuzz. The real stuff continues to be written same way as before - and this is gonna become more and more apparent as the LLM garbage sneaks in more and more software.
  • skydhash 1y ago
    > "slightly better stackoverflow" I'm still not sold on that. Stack overflow UI has lot of signals for a good response. The amount of answers, the upvotes on those answers, the comments,... With a quick scan, you can quickly see if you need to go back to the web search page (I've never used SO search) or do a slower read.