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Development speed is not a bottleneck

(pawelbrodzinski.substack.com)
191 points flail | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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sega_sai ◴[05 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45140148[source]▶
I completely disagree. As a scientist who does a lot of coding, the modern LLM tools give me ability to code something which previously I could not afford, because I simply did not have time for it. Now if I have an idea, I may be able to test it in an hour of tinkering with claude/gemini. I could technically still code it myself, but in some cases that would require maybe a day of work -- and I simply don't have that.
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1. flail ◴[05 Sep 25 18:27 UTC] No.45141904[source]▶
You mention one fabulous application of AI-supported coding that the article didn't touch upon. It's anything where the target customer group is me. All sorts of automation, pet projects, and serious stuff that improves research, too.

The context of the article is product development, with a bias toward the commercial part of the ecosystem. And of course, as any picture painted with broad strokes, some generalizations were inevitable.

As a scientist, you definitely are familiar with the weight (or lack thereof) of anecdotal evidence. Unless the claim is "it can never work" or "it always works," my individual experience is just that--an individual experience.