[dakiol]

I don't understand the "being more productive" part. Like, sure, LLMs make us iterate faster but our managers know we're using them! They don't naively think we suddenly became 10x engineers. Companies pay for these tools and every engineer has access to them. So if everyone is equally productive, the baseline just shifted up... same as always, no?

Mentioning LLM usage as a distinction is like bragging about using a modern compiler instead of writing assembly. Yeah it's faster, but so is everyone else code... Besides, I wouldn't brag about being more productive with LLMS because it's a double edge sword: it's very easy to use them, and nobody is reviewing all the lines of code you are pushing to prod (really, when was the last time you reviewed a PR generated by AI that changed 20+ files and added/removed thousands of lines of code?), so you don't know what's the long game of your changes; they seem to work now but who knows how it will turn out later?

[bluelightning2k]

Sometimes outcomes and achievements and work product are useful beyond just... stack ranking yourself against your peers. Seems so odd to me that this is your mentality unless you're earlier in your career.

[dakiol]

Fair enough. I've been in software more than I would like to admit. And the more I'm in, the less I care about achievements in a work environment. All I care about is that the company pays me every month, because companies don't care about me (they care about my outome per hour/week/month). So it's essential to rank yourself high against your peers (being ethically and the like, ofc), otherwise you are out in the next layoff. I know not every company is like this, but the vast majority of tech companies are.

Outside of work, yeah, everything is fine and there's nothing but the pure pursue of knowledge and joy.

[renegade-otter]

People would really be better off seeing themselves as mercenaries with health benefits. You are nothing more. You learn, you make friends, but your job is ephemeral. Do it, but don't get attached TO it.

[adamtaylor_13]

The key there is "vast majority of tech companies". And I agree with you.

I think the next big movement in tech will be ALL companies becoming tech companies. Right now there are hundreds of thousands of "small" companies with big enough budgets to pay for a CTO to modernize their stack and lead them into the 21st century.

The problem is they don't know they have this problem and so they aren't actively hiring for a CTO. You've got to go find them and insert yourself as the solution.

[exogenousdata]

All companies are like this. Some just have better HR/PR.

[layer8]

Usually hedonic adaptation ends up catching up, and then it’s just the new baseline.

[kqr]

> like bragging about using a modern compiler instead of writing assembly.

Yet people look at me like I'm the odd one out when I say I am more productive with a modern compiler like GHC.