alt Hacker NewsI don't buy that. We see nothing.
> Software teams are capturing a lot of the speedup in the form of more leisure or quasi-leisure time. (To greatly simplify: software teams are offering 2x speedups to their companies. They're then using tools that allow them to work 10x as efficiently, and taking nice long coffee breaks.)
That is just an insult. With AI we are working more than ever, either because of "you should be faster now" or because half the people are getting layed-off ...
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Agreed. The recent Epic Games story (mass layoffs followed by the remaining staff being forced to use AI to crunch) is more in line with reality as I see it. I've been told by management to 'use AI' when I really need to hire.
Who are "we"? We have less (almost none) issues on Sentry, better measured performance, reduced server costs. At the end AI is just writing the same bytecode so you're not going to suddenly see software that didn't exist before.
> We see nothing.
Clear your glasses. For example - https://getartcraft.com/apps Thanks to those people we may soon have great alternatives to monopolies.
I have no clue where the author is working but...
We've lost 75% of the team over the last year.
We write code faster. It's not getting merged faster because we usually find something janky.
Decisions aren't made faster.
Understanding doesn't come faster.
Code doesn't have value. A well working system has value, the bottleneck is now between having code and having a working system, rather than producing the code.