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Comment by GiorgioG | Hacker News Reader

AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.

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> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job

> ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out

Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me.

What would you rather see instead?

If AI increased your productivity 1500% I shudder to imagine how little you get done without it.

The average productivity increase is not 1500% though.

Copilot saves my team enough time that we could split it up in 3 teams instead of hire 2 more teams of our team size to do that work. And we also didn’t hire new team members and are not planning to as we actually are running out of tasks. If this stuff gets any smarter, the firing will happen. Instead I am thinking of a new product instead to stop that. Pretty insane imho.

Ok.

A "mere" 20% would be a four day work week with zero productivity loss.

A four day work week requires a 25% productivity increase to result in zero productivity loss.

100 * 1,20 * 0,8 = 96

100 * 1,25 * 0,8 = 100

Fair, but HN is also about interesting discussion, and the same old day-to-day doesn't make for interesting discussion.

Even if AI is hype, it is more interesting than other hype because it is not just empty. There is nuance to this hype. AI is real, and can do real things. People are hyping it beyond what is real, but finding where that line falls is exactly why it is interesting.

So what else would you like to see on the front page? Java, boring Postgres and HTML all are useful but there aren’t exactly any new innovative things that are happening everyday that warrant posting on the front page

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