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ej88yesterday at 6:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

We're already seeing eye-watering, blistering growth from the new hot applied AI startups and labs

Imo the wave of top down 'AI mandates' from incumbent companies is a direct result of the competitive pressure, although it probably wont work as well as the execs think it will

that being said even Dario claims a 5-20% speedup from coding agents, 10x productivity only exists in microcosm prototypes, or if someone was so unskilled oneshotting a localhost web app is a 10x for them


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bwestergardyesterday at 6:44 PM

"eye-watering, blistering growth from the new hot applied AI startups and labs"

Could you give us a few examples?

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sjaiisbayesterday at 6:13 PM

AI has been a lifesaver for my low performing coworkers. They’re still heavily reliant on reviews, but their output is up. One of the lowest output guys I ever worked with is a massive LinkedIn LLM promoter.

Not sure how long it’ll last though. With the time I spend on reviews I could have done it myself, so if they don’t start learning…

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