We learned that some tasks don't really benefit from AI while others do. My team went from 7 people to 2 (went to new teams, no layoffs), and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to.
Is it more draining and lacking of focused work? Yes. Is it more money for the business? Yes.
In my world, when something is expensive and doesn’t meet expectations it called a failure. Especially when something has been as hyped, scrutinized, defended and attacked as vibe coding.
Honestly, if you are the director of robotics at a firm I think it’s time you took a cold shower.
I’ll rephrase, Zuckerberg would certainly enjoy agentic coding to be a wild success because it means less staff and more products he could fail to create.
“Wild success” and “going slower than expected”?
Wake me up when words have a meaning again.
Correct, they are not.
Consider: Someone who "expects" their bank account to have $100M in it before they turn 30 and "only" gets it to $10M.
From the point of view of a normal sane person, they are experiencing "wild success", and yet at the same time they are definitely "going slower than [they] expected".
We're riding an exponential here for Pete's sake.
just pointing out the obvious.
Until you factor in many large firms are interested in cheap Chinese models.
Are you a frontier lab booster by any chance?
It’s absolutely 10x faster for coding. But coding is only 10% of my job. The other 90% is figuring out what to code.
If you claim 10x and deliver 3x, that is a failure. The 3x may still be impressive or a gamechanger or ..., but it still falls short of its promises.
Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.
There is increase in (not only perceived) value _somewhere_ - IMO depends on the organizational culture. At my work I found going over 100$ on OpenAI/Anthropic's API pricing does not produce any meaningful additional output. It might be much different in different companies.
To be completely honest, I’m living life right now. I love programming with my bare hands, but man I’m living just building a gajillion things a mile a minute with LLMs. I then come home and spend hours building stuff for myself using local models. I’ve never been so excited about just building shit, that I sometimes want to pull all nighters because I’ve been in the zone (a for work and at home).
Draining? Sorry… inject that LLM serum right into my veins
Now we just need to find those tasks. I want to believe.
> and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to
Zero evidence for this. It's programmers self-reporting their own productivity. (Have we not learned this lesson after 50 years of programming practice?)