alt Hacker NewsI work as an ML engineer/researcher. When I implement a change in an experiment it usually takes at least an hour to get the results. I can use this time to implement a different experiment. Doesn't matter if I do it by hand or if I let an agent do it for me, I have enough time. Code isn't the bottleneck.
I also heard an opinion that since writing code is cheap, people implement things that have no economic value without really thinking it through.
+1 on the economic value line. Not everything needs to be about money but if you get paid to ship code it's about money. And now we have coworkers shipping insane amounts of "features" because it's all free to ship and being an engineer, it ends there.
Only it doesn't, there's product positioning, UX, information architecture, onboarding and training, support, QA, change management, analytics, reporting… sigh