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Comment by jaredcwhite | Hacker News Reader

"force multiplication"

This is a buzzword, this isn't a thing. Just like the 10x developer was never a thing.

10x developers are a thing, but it's very context dependent. Put John Carmack in a room with your average FAANG principle and ask them both to build a 3D game engine with some features above and beyond what you can get out of the box with OpenGL and I would be very surprised if John didn't 10x (or more) his competition.

AI as a force multiplier is also a thing, with well structured codebases one high level dev can guide 2-3 agents through implementing features simultaneously, and each of those agents is going to be outputting code faster than your average human. The human just needs to provide high level guidance on how the features are implemented, and coach the AI on how to get unstuck when they inevitably run into things they're unable to handle.

The mental model you want for force multiplication in this context is a human lead "managing" a team of AI developers.

Show us the numbers, what company? What gains? How did you measure it? If it is just fan fiction, simply fu.

I'm not going to bother, if I did you'd obviously keep moving goalposts and trying to weasel out of owning your error at all costs. It's not like there's anything you've demonstrated that makes me care what you think, so there's really no point in wasting my time trying to convince you of anything. I'll let your manager in ~3 years do it, when you get PIPd.

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