alt Hacker NewsFair assessment. And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment.
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nubg • today at 1:26 AM
Agreed, but if that came at a cost of 1 trillion dollars of debt and investments, it might be a disappointment again.
Note that I am bullish on AI coding in general, just trying to contextualize your statement.
> And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment
The biggest risk in software development is building the wrong thing. Digging yourself into a hole 10% faster is _worse_. You now have more backtracking to do!