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I write code. On a good day perhaps 800-1000 "hand written" lines. I have never actually thought about how much typing time this actually is. Perhaps an hour?
by nmehner 9mo ago
I write code. On a good day perhaps 800-1000 "hand written" lines.
I have never actually thought about how much typing time this actually is. Perhaps an hour? In that case 7/8th of my day are filled with other stuff. Like analysis, planning, gathering requirements, talking to people.
So even if an AI removed almost all the time I spend typing away: This is only a 10% improvement in speed. Even if you ignore that I still have to review the code, understand everything and correct possible problems.
A bigger speedup is only possible if you decide not to understand everything the AI does and just trust it to do the right thing.
- dpark 9mo agoMaybe you code so fast that the thought-to-code transition is not a bottleneck for you. In which case, awesome for you. I suspect this makes you a significant outlier since respected and productive engineers like Antirez seem to find benefits.