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ericmceryesterday at 7:09 PM0 repliesview on HN

"Engineering time is very expensive"

I always wondered about this statement, like we are generally salaried and there is so many variables that affect how I spend my "time". None of us are machines that can do X work per day and our managers get to slice it as they see fit. Pull a dev off a project they love and throw them onto something they hate and suddenly X is diminished greatly.

I would almost predict that reshaping our workflow to be: "prompt, wait, approve changes." results in losses because it is such a mentally tiring workflow and drills into our brains the desire for the LLM to "just fix it". It is the next level of just moving tickets to completed all day.