Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Jensson 671 days ago
Those things are a tiny part of the work though and are all about generating boilerplate code. Tons of boilerplate code isn't the hallmark of a great codebase, I don't think many programmers spends more than 10% of their time writing boilerplate code, unless they work at a very dysfunctional org.

It is true it is faster than humans at some tasks, but the remaining tasks were most of the time, you can't gain more than 11% speedup by speeding up 10% of the work.

1 comments

What's your point? The other person is speeding themself up, and it works for them. What's the appropriate bar for speedups. What would be enough to satisfy you? What problems do you have that AI isn't speeding up that you still feel aren't worth spending your brain on?maybe list them and see if the other people has thoughts on how to go about it?

Things don't move forward by saying it can't be done or belittle others accomplishments.