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I was going to say that this surely depends on the type of work being done with AI but then a small dive into your HN profile shows you're working on SWE agents at Google?

I am struggling to reconcile your viewpoint with this but may have found the wrong profile!

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It's possible to be frank about the misuse of AI in a lot of corporate settings today and also view it as a tool (or a step in tool development) that has the potential to be quite valuable.

Also, there are plenty of non-development related uses of AI that are genuinely valuable - document extraction and data repair are strong domains for application.

Absolutely agreed - though the usual claim for coding agents in particular is that they are already very capable and fast, replacing and speeding up software development hugely (anecdotally reasonably true for me and my colleagues, though again depends on domain and complexity).

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