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My speed shipping software increased but so did the demands of features by my company.

Or worse. I’ve heard stories from friends where leadership expects huge boosts in productivity due to LLMs, and perceive anything but an order of magnitude boost as incompetence or a refusal to adapt.

To be fair, some of it might genuinely be refusal to adapt? If we go by HN comments, there definitely do seem to be at least some people who are letting their hangups prevent them from learning this tech.

> It can't think, it just predicts likely tokens

> I can't believe this industry I once cherished for rational professionalism has fallen for nondeterministism

> Sorry, I'm just not going to participate in destroying the planet with these power hunger DCs

> All this stuff actually costs 10x what a human developer costs but they're dumping the service at a low price to make us dependent.

> It's a bubble, or a scam, in a year or two everything will go back to normal.

Tell me sentiments like these don't get bandied about by devs who want to keep doing things the way they know and like.

I just don't want to use it. It may or may not be a big deal, I lean toward it not being, but even if it is I would prefer not to use it, so I'm going to resist it as far as possible. I don't pretend it's about any higher principle than me not liking it. I'll wait to get put on a PIP and then I'll do exactly what they ask.

PMs can now also ship their half-baked requirements documents even faster thanks to the help of AI.

I don't really get this TBH.

Shipping speed never/is was the issue. Most companies are terrible at figuring out what exactly they should be allocating resources behind.

Speeding up does not solve the problem that most humans who are at the top of the hierarchy are poor thinkers. In fact it compounds it. More noise, nice.

Yep requirement gathering takes forever Then validation takes forever

Writing code is lesser problem than figuring out what we want when we want, and to get stakeholders at one place.

Finally, a fella who gets it.

Apple has already shown this decades ago - they got the iPhone and iPod developed and out the door in relatively short-time scales given the impact of the products on the world. Once you know what you want, exactly what you want, things moves fast - really fast.

I've seen biz team taking 3 4 months to do UAT

But sure let's buy 200$ per month claude to ship things faster lol

Lol yeah. Much of the issues re. lack of productivity comes from management who dont have the ability to focus+clarity+confidence of where to go and also create the environment to get the max out of people.

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