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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

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170 points mogambo1 | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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liszper ◴[18 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45289744[source]▶
most SWE folks still have no idea how big the difference is between the coding agents they tried a year ago and declared as useless and chatgpt 5 paired with Codex or Cursor today

thanks for the article, it's a good one

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angusturner ◴[18 Sep 25 14:29 UTC] No.45290163[source]▶
I think most SWEs do have a good idea where I work.

They know that its a significant, but not revolutionary improvement.

If you supervise and manage your agents closely on well scoped (small) tasks they are pretty handy.

If you need a prototype and don't care about code quality or maintenance, they are great.

Anyone claiming 2x, 5x, 10x etc is absolutely kidding themselves for any non-trivial software.

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1. gnarcoregrizz ◴[18 Sep 25 17:54 UTC] No.45292788[source]▶
I've found it to be insanely productive when doing framework-based web development (currently working with Django), I would say it's an easy 5-10x improvement in productivity there, but I still need to keep a somewhat close eye on it. It's not nearly as productive in my home grown stuff, it can be kind of annoying actually.