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by farhanhubble 22 days ago
That's fair. In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save I can set aside some time to keep myself sharp. I can learn more languages. Additionally, as pointed out by others, I'm trading coding effort for design and and strategy, which generally control business outcomes a lot more.

Having said that, I won't use AI for production system if I don't understand the programming constructs in enough detail.
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sevenseacat 22 days ago
How many more languages have you learnt, and how much time have you spent keeping yourself sharp? 99% of your work time, right?
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wiseowise 22 days ago
> In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save

And how much is that?

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farhanhubble 22 days ago
Easily 99 percent on most tasks. As an example, for a Python project with a dozen modules and ~50 files,a simple instruction like "Design a config file backed by Pydantic to store the project's settings. Keep the models modular" sets up nested Pydantic models, moves the settings to sensibly named JSON fields and updates the code to use Pydantic classes everywhere. Takes a few minutes maybe. Manually done the same task would take me half a few hours in the best case and a day in the worst case.
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Aeolun 22 days ago
AI: I would urge you to reconsider, this is a multi week project.

Me: Do it anyway

10 minutes later

AI: Perfect!

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