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logicprogyesterday at 10:00 PM0 repliesview on HN

Also.

> This statement is honestly so ridiculous that I felt it didn't warrant a direct response, but here's one anyway: AI enthusiasts have been proudly proclaiming for literal years that AI makes them 10x as productive based on cherry-picked anecdotes with zero empirical evidence to back it up.

Let's go back to remedial classes on this one.

"I have found that [tool] has made me more effective" is what we call lived experience. It is an "i" statement communicating something about the person’s life. It does not require evidence by default, and you are a crazy person if you call bullshit without good reason, because many "I" statements are epistemically justified in ways that can't be empirically demonstrated or require tacit knowledge.

"[tool] has been buggier since [change]" is a falsifiable claim; you need to actually provide evidence for believing it, and what I'm showing is literally that there isn't any.