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> By the time the meeting ends, an AI agent in a teammate's terminal has shipped two pull requests, refactored a service, and updated the docs

Screw you

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I'm not actually sure who you are mad at here. The engineer who is being super productive with AI, or the author for suggesting that an engineer can be that productive with AI.

lines of code != productivity

Especially today where LLMs have been reinforced and trained to spew tokens

A gentle reminder that the task of Engineering is to (1) reduce costs and/or (2) increase revenue

If you aren't doing either. You are faffing around. No matter the jargon jiu-jitsu you do on your quarterly performance self-review :)

> I'm not actually sure who you are mad at here.

The careless tossing around of grandiose claims. Like within the span of a 15 min standup, 2 good pull requests and a _refactor_ (refactoring its previous PRs??) and updated docs happen on average, on a single terminal btw. In a given day for a 3 person team how many prs (and refactors) is that?

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