←back to thread

421 points briankelly | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.505s | source
Show context
ramesh31 ◴[] No.43575909[source]
This maps pretty well to my experience.

Other devs will say things like "AI is just a stupid glorified autocomplete, it will never be able to handle my Very Special Unique Codebase. I even spent 20 minutes one time trying out Cursor, and it just failed"

Nope, you're just not that good obviously. I am literally 10x more productive at this point. Sprint goals have become single afternoons. If you are not tuned in to what's going on here and embracing it, you are going to be completely obsolete in the next 6 months unless you are some extremely niche high level expert. It wont be a dramatic moment where anyone gets "fired for AI". Orgs will just simply not replace people through attrition when they see productivity staying the same (or even increasing) as headcount goes down.

replies(5): >>43576040 #>>43576091 #>>43576102 #>>43576499 #>>43585398 #
1. Peritract ◴[] No.43585398[source]
Have you considered that the opposite explanation might be true instead?

It could be that other developers are not benefitting from AI as much as you because they don't understand it.

It could also be that you are benefitting more than them because you're less skilled than them, and AI can fill in your gaps but not theirs.