[senectus1]

>Employees generally want to put in the least amount of effort possible and go home at 5.

Really?

In my experience coding engineers are coders because they enjoy the challenge. they like building things, breaking things and rebuilding things.

Its the white-collar 9-5 office workers that churn out power-point and word documents that want to do as little as possible.

[siddboots]

Sometime very soon we’ll cross a threshold where most people can do most of their coding through a tool like Claude and be more productive. It will feel like coding still, breaking and building things, but they will get more done in the same time. Everyone will switch.

[oulu2006]

I'm already building whole projects now with AI -- not a single line of code by myself.

I love it, I've coded for 25 years and I don't need to write another line ever again, I just want to build cool things as fast as possible.

[pizzalife]

If you work at a startup, sometimes you have to do extremely mundane and boring things unrelated to your expertise (“wear many hats”). AI is especially useful in those cases so you can quickly go back to working on things you enjoy.