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by rayiner 60 days ago
> It’s experimental but he built it with help from Claude in about a month.

We talk a lot about AI building programs from soup to nuts. But I think people overlook the more likely scenario. AI will turn 10x programmers into 100x programmers. Or in Matz’s case maybe 100x programmers into 500x programmers.

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AI is the function f(x) = x • |x|. It turns 10x into 100x, 1x into 1x, and -10x into -100x.
Something there, but this sounds too optimistic for x ∈ [-1, 0] and too pessimistic for x ∈ [0, 1].
I should specify the domain to be ℤ
It actually helps me write better code. I am pretty lazy so I kind of don't do much refactoring unless I have to, I care mostly about happy paths and I kind of avoid treating edge cases unless I can't do it. I usually don't optimize much.

But since writing code is very easy now with AI I write better code because it doesn't take me more time and effort.