alt Hacker NewsWFH vs in-office, AI mandatory vs AI forbidden: ideally I want my boss to let me work however I want, and ideally+realistically however makes me most productive.
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Personally: I'm a developer, so my situation is different. But right now I use AI code completion and Claude Code. I think I'd be fine without Claude Code, since it hasn't "clicked" for me yet; I think it's motivating, particularly for new features and boilerplate, but often (even with the boilerplate) must rewrite a lot of what it generates. Code completion would be harder, but maybe if the work was interesting and non-boilerplate enough I'd manage.
I've heard Claude Code has improved a lot very recently, so I would feel left behind without it completely, except I can use it in my spare time on personal projects. But if it keeps improving and/or ends up "clicking", then I may feel like I'm spinning my wheels at work.
Correct, all of these is about shifting the power dynamics into the middle managers rather than the engineers, who are already trusted to design and develop the system. It’s as if always there should be some gate keeping and wrangling work in place so these managers feel they are not useless in the overall process. Just design a process that ensures the outcome is of xyz quality and never check how and where it was done, but human nature to control is always there.