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> Lets establish some proof of value first Recently spoke to someone who said that most startups in their (very large) portfolio are using AI to write most of
by jeswin 1y ago
> Lets establish some proof of value first
Recently spoke to someone who said that most startups in their (very large) portfolio are using AI to write most of their code. I personally know this to be true in several startups I've seen; and I've seen slow but steady adoption in larger companies.
We can debate about spending hundreds of billions per year, but the value is beyond question at this point at least in software.
- Eldt 1y agoI find this hard to believe given the quality of code that AI models currently produce. Does the startup have a successful product? Or does it have a spaghetti ball of technical debt waiting to explode?
- dustrider 1y agoJust to make the point. I agree there’s adoption but value is still being figured out. See the MIT Nanda study, and the other one from a few weeks back on the perceived vs actual productivity increases. There is value, but so far nowhere near as much as the people pushing AI would like you to believe has actually been delivered
- CamperBob2 1y agoThe Nanda study is junk. Yes, I'm slower as a developer when I use AI. That's because I'm doing things I simply couldn't do before.
- dustrider 1y agoI agree with you on the quality of the study. My point was that value shouldn’t be considered a given, we’re still figuring it out. In my team I see examples like yours, but I also see engineers having to clean up slop when one of them got over their skis. My _belief_ is that it’s a net positive, but we’re far from taking that as a hand wave fact. And it certainly ain’t the 5-10x people are shouting across the board.