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71 points zek | 10 comments | 24 Sep 25 14:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.195s | source | bottom
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dangus ◴[24 Sep 25 15:19 UTC] No.45361608[source]▶
The article isn’t providing a lot of convincing data that AI improved much of anything, only that it didn’t cause incidents.

I really don’t understand why AI usage is mandatory for roles. Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful. Hell, a lot of employers can’t be bothered to provide basics like nice keyboards and monitors that exceed 1080p.

The current era of tech has way too many corporate losers.

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1. jf22 ◴[24 Sep 25 15:51 UTC] No.45362080[source]▶
>Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful.

Isn't mandating IDE usage a perfectly reasonable and common thing?

It's a productivity tool after all.

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2. jmuguy ◴[24 Sep 25 15:53 UTC] No.45362098[source]▶
But there's other reasons for that - makes support easier, can have same linting setup etc, its not done to increase productivity.
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3. kylereeve ◴[24 Sep 25 16:20 UTC] No.45362522[source]▶
I've never seen an IDE "mandated", I've seen officially supported development setups where you're on your own if you do anything different. Is that not the standard?
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4. gdulli ◴[24 Sep 25 16:32 UTC] No.45362706[source]▶
I'd never have worked at a place that mandated a specific IDE. Luckily it's something I never encountered, if it's ever done this is the first I'm hearing about it.
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5. jf22 ◴[24 Sep 25 17:25 UTC] No.45363378[source]▶
But you'd have to use an IDE right?
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6. jf22 ◴[24 Sep 25 17:25 UTC] No.45363384[source]▶
Both of your examples increase productivity.
7. jf22 ◴[24 Sep 25 17:26 UTC] No.45363393[source]▶
Your job will look pretty funny at you if you want to code everything by hand while everyone else is using VSCode.
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8. gdulli ◴[24 Sep 25 17:39 UTC] No.45363554{3}[source]▶
No, it never occurred to me that anyone would care. I don't think many of my bosses or teammates could have named my choice of IDE/editor even after working with me for a while. I'm sure I mentioned it occasionally but I don't think anyone would care enough to remember.

I was usually most productive with a text editor as opposed to an IDE but I'd sometimes use an IDE as needed or when I wanted to try something new.

9. strange_quark ◴[24 Sep 25 19:42 UTC] No.45365088{3}[source]▶
I've literally never seen this and I've been around for awhile. There's always people with some bespoke vim or emacs setup while everyone else is just using Jetbrains or VSCode or whatever, and nobody cares at all as long as that person is getting their work done.
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10. jf22 ◴[25 Sep 25 12:43 UTC] No.45372078{4}[source]▶
Still an IDE right?