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by 0xbadc0de5 101 days ago
Fair assessment. And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment.
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> And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment

The biggest risk in software development is building the wrong thing. Digging yourself into a hole 10% faster is _worse_. You now have more backtracking to do!

Or….now you have 10% more time to spend on validating and testing the problem set and doing product rollout experiments more frequently
Agreed, but if that came at a cost of 1 trillion dollars of debt and investments, it might be a disappointment again.

Note that I am bullish on AI coding in general, just trying to contextualize your statement.