alt Hacker NewsI'm consistently seeing personal and shared anecdotes of a 40%-60% speedup on targeted senior work.
As much as I like agents, I am not convinced the human using them can sit back and get lazy quite yet!
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toenail • 07/31/2025
That sounds plausible if the senior did lots of simple coding tasks and moves that work to an agent. Then the senior basically has to be a team lead and do code reviews/qa.
Eeeh, I spend less time writing code, but way more time reviewing and correcting it. I'm not sure I come ahead overall, but it does make development less boilerplaty and more high level, which leads to code that otherwise wouldn't have been written.