alt Hacker NewsI don’t even spend 70% of my time coding. I suspect that’s common and looking at data it’s more like 25% on average. So even if it replaces 100% of coding (unlikely) that’s the extent of the gain.
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kasey_junk • last Saturday at 12:51 PM
Some of my biggest productivity gains with llms come from areas that aren’t coding. Research, summation, communication and operational issues have all seen pretty dramatic improvements for me when adding llms.
I don’t think ai will replace the career of software development but I do think the tools we will be using to to it will be dramatically different.
Agreed, seems it's a great day if I get close to 50% of coding time. The rest is various meetings, communication, and code review.
And even with reviews you can currently plausibly automate only the code correctness check part, the juicy part of reviews is always manual testing of the change and doing the logical reasoning if the change is doing a meaningful thing. And no, the ticket with the spec is not a reliable source of this info for an LLM as it's always just a partial understanding of the concept.