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> If AI is here to stay, as a thing that permanently increases productivity, Thing is, I am still waiting to see where it increases productivity aside from som
by thefz 8mo ago
> If AI is here to stay, as a thing that permanently increases productivity,
Thing is, I am still waiting to see where it increases productivity aside from some extremely small niches like speech to text and summarizing some small text very fast.
- sigseg1v 8mo agoSerious question, but have you not used it to implement anything at your job? Admittedly I was very skeptical but last sprint in 2 days I got 12 pull requests up for review by running 8 agents on my computer in parallel and about 10 more on cloud VMs. The PRs are all double reviewed and QA'd and merged. The ones that don't have PRs are larger refactors, one 40K loc and the other 30k loc and I just need actual time to go through every line myself and self-test appropriately, otherwise it would have been more stuff finished. These are all items tied to money in our backlog. It would have taken me about 5 times as long to close those items out without this tooling. I also would have not had as much time to produce and verify as many unit tests as I did. Is this not increased productivity?
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- thefz 8mo agoSo you roll a dice and call yourself a software engineer, basically.
- sigseg1v 8mo agoI have an engineering degree but don't call myself an engineer because it's illegal to do so in my country unless I hold a PEng. That aside, I fail to see how code where I have reviewed every single line, tested all edge cases as normal, had 2 other devs also test this, had a QA test, and had a PO run and approve the behaviour as "rolling the dice" but you're entitled to your opinion.
- throwaw12 8mo agoAre you doctor or a farmer? If you are a software engineer you are missing out a lot, literally a lot!
- bopbopbop7 8mo agoWhat is he missing? Do you have anything quantitative other than an AI marketing blog or an anecdote?
- throwaw12 8mo agoClaude Code, Codex, Antigravity? My experience is different than others, but what I am seeing, people around me, building software with 99% AI written code. They do review it, but the code, exploration primarily done by AI and debugging is done together (e.g. XYZ is not compiling what do I do,...)
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- cheema33 8mo ago> I am still waiting to see where it increases productivity... If you are a software engineer, and you are not using using AI to help with software development, then you are missing out. Like many other technologies, using AI agents for software dev work takes time to learn and master. You are not likely to get good results if you try it half-heartedly as a skeptic. And no, nobody can teach you these skills in a comment in an online forum. This requires trial and error on your part. If well known devs like Linus Torvalds are saying there is value here, and you are not seeing it, then then the issue is not with the tool.
- thefz 8mo agoThese are definitely skills I don't want to have, don't worry.