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0 pointsRinzler891y ago0 comments

We'd all be millionaires if AI could actually help with that, but then if everyone is a millionaire then nobody is.

Current AI is still at the state of recommending people jump off the golden gate bridge if they feel sad or telling them to change their blinker fluid.

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kybernetyk1y ago

You're right. And that's why I wonder how a developer can claim to get a 300% increase in productivity from AI results.

oceanplexian1y ago

300% is a massive underestimate for someone who is AI native and understands how to prompt and interpret results correctly. In the past I would spend 30-40 minutes hunting around on StackOverflow to get the syntax of a difficult database query or bust out a long regular expression.

With AI I can do the same in 15 seconds. We’re talking a 120x increase in productivity not a 3x improvement.

jononor1y ago

Do you spend 100% of your time on such tasks? If not, then Amdahl wants a word with you about your overall productivity gains.

m_fayer1y ago

Agreed, I don’t know why people are so down on ai as a coding assistant here. I concur with everything you said, and will add that now I also have a service that will produce, on-demand, the exact documentation that I need at the exact level of abstraction, and then I can interrogate it at will. These things are huge time savers.

Rinzler89OP1y ago

You can easily get 300% productivity improvements if you're using a completely new language but still have enough programming background in order to refine the prompts to get what you want, or if you're debugging an issue and the LLM points you in the right way saving you hours of googling and slamming your head against the wall.

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