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Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI act

Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI actually is useful in specific domains.

bluefirebrand 11mo ago
If AI is making you more productive, then I doubt you were very productive pre-AI
- cyral 11mo ago
  The denial/cope here is insane
  - fireflash38 11mo ago
    My experience with using AI is that it's a glorified stack overflow copy paster. It'll even glue a handful of SO answers together! But then you run into classic SO problems... Like the first solution doesn't work. Nor the second one. And the third one introduces a completely different coding style. The last one is implemented in pure sh/GNU utils. One thing it is absolutely amazing at: digesting things that have bad documentation, like openssl C api. Even then you still gotta be on the watch for hallucinations, and audit it very thoroughly.
- atleastoptimal 11mo ago
  I had a software engineering job before AI. I still do, but I can write much more code. I avoid AI in more mission-critical domains and areas where it is more important that I understand the details intimately, but a lot of coding is repetitive busywork, looking for "needles in haystacks", porting libraries, etc. which AI makes 10x easier.
grayhatter 11mo ago
> Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI actually is useful in specific domains. Equally, my read is you're fixating on the syntax used in their comment to insulate yourself from actually engaging with their idea and point. You refuse to try to understand the parts of the system that negate the surface level popularity, eer productivity gains. People who enjoy the productivity boost of AI are right, you can absolutely, without question build a house faster with AI. The people who claim there's not really any reasonable productivity gains from AI are also right, because using AI to build a multistory anything, requires you to waste all that time starting with a house, to then raze it to the ground and rebuild a usable foundation. yes, "but its useful in specific domains" is technically correct statement, but whataboutism is rarely a useful conversational response.

Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI actually is useful in specific domains.

bluefirebrand 11mo ago

If AI is making you more productive, then I doubt you were very productive pre-AI

cyral 11mo ago
The denial/cope here is insane
- fireflash38 11mo ago
  My experience with using AI is that it's a glorified stack overflow copy paster. It'll even glue a handful of SO answers together! But then you run into classic SO problems... Like the first solution doesn't work. Nor the second one. And the third one introduces a completely different coding style. The last one is implemented in pure sh/GNU utils. One thing it is absolutely amazing at: digesting things that have bad documentation, like openssl C api. Even then you still gotta be on the watch for hallucinations, and audit it very thoroughly.
atleastoptimal 11mo ago
I had a software engineering job before AI. I still do, but I can write much more code. I avoid AI in more mission-critical domains and areas where it is more important that I understand the details intimately, but a lot of coding is repetitive busywork, looking for "needles in haystacks", porting libraries, etc. which AI makes 10x easier.

grayhatter 11mo ago

> Many people actually are becoming more productive. I know you're using quotes around productive to insulate yourself from the indignity of admitting that AI actually is useful in specific domains. Equally, my read is you're fixating on the syntax used in their comment to insulate yourself from actually engaging with their idea and point. You refuse to try to understand the parts of the system that negate the surface level popularity, eer productivity gains. People who enjoy the productivity boost of AI are right, you can absolutely, without question build a house faster with AI. The people who claim there's not really any reasonable productivity gains from AI are also right, because using AI to build a multistory anything, requires you to waste all that time starting with a house, to then raze it to the ground and rebuild a usable foundation. yes, "but its useful in specific domains" is technically correct statement, but whataboutism is rarely a useful conversational response.