On: Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

[baobeta2907]

This is actually true at my company. They expect employees to be 10× more productive now that we have AI.

[jdlshore → baobeta2907]

I’ve had people tell me, with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements. This is at the executive and VC level. The mania is extreme.

[Yopolo → jdlshore]

I for sure do plenty of things with AI a lot faster.

Instead of searching some linux issue, i will prompt claude to generate a small analyser script for checking wha tlinux i have, i will tell it what hardware i have and it fixed my issue in like 5 minutes? That would have been a lot longer before.

[aryehof → jdlshore]

> … with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements.

A great alternative future to look forward to - 1 employee expected to do the work of 10-100. Those others fired to save money.

[miraculixx → jdlshore]

So then they should get 10-100x more revenue, now that AI does all the marketing and selling.

[camdenreslink → baobeta2907]

You can be 10x more productive if you don’t verify anything the LLM generates and just YOLO it into your codebase. I wouldn’t recommend it.