alt Hacker NewsI’m not sure I’ve really seen it within the community of programmers. It was certainly more there early on when the models were much worse, but I’ve seen it fading.
I have seen it among “the general public“. I’ve seen normal people complain about things in open-source projects or other contexts where to whatever degree they accepted programming took time before now they think it’s all just a magic wand with Claude, no matter the level of complexity.
I haven’t heard a single person at my company in management at any layer complain that we’re not working fast enough now that we have AI. One of my friends has 100% told me their management is pulling that. The management over there is on the everyone should do four times as many tickets, and use at least X amount of tokens per day. otherwise you’re slacking off train.
It’s all in who you talk to.
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I think a large part of it is that the programmers that aren’t using AI have already been fired or pushed out of the industry in other ways.
The programmers who are left is an artificial selection of AI boosters.
I think it's an age thing as well.
Engineers that have only started full time work post 2023 haven't experienced the counterfactual of not having AI.
They see all the mundane business/eng bottlenecks that are pervasive now and don't truly know how much better it is now than before