He's working 10 hrs. a day, just entering things into Claude, waiting, reviewing, and learning absolutely nothing.
At this point anyone who was truly passionate about programming, is just less and less motivated to become a better engineer.
We don't have try to use them as 'agents' to write and understand all the code for us, frankly I wouldn't trust them to do so, they make too many mistakes and foolish decisions about architecture.
"reverse token value inflation"?
Do you perhaps mean "deflation"?
You could say in a years time that going in now was kind of insane.
The only things that I do with AI at my job are easy things. AI hasn’t transformed hard work in quite the same way, but it has given me access to knowledge and information about things and processes that I didn’t have before. It also forces me to write things down, which is perhaps a not insignificant amount of the improvement in our business
If not, what are they even doing that they keep burning through piles of cash?
Ok if this is the advice then I'm gonna look for a second opinion first. :)
More seriously: making any crap with AI is trivial and doesn't need learning. Making something better and more valuable than all the competitors *that have the same tools as you* is more involved, and relies 100% on knowing how to extract unique value from the tools. A part of that comes from your product/industry expertise (acquired before AI, much like your competitors), but unless you're a genius or in a greenfield, what will matter will be the other part where you have trained hard to be a better driver than your competition who just waited and watched a few youtubes.
But if that isn't your competitive landscape...
When non-technical people call the shots, they will rarely bet on spending time and effort on designing things properly because they can't see the value and it's hard to communicate and convince others of its business value.
This is the part that bugs me with AI usage is that it drives the use of it to benefit the company but not the individual. Yes AI allows me to be faster as work (in theory), but as a result I lose out in my own learning as an employee, I lose out in my own cognitive ability to learn, make mistakes and build upon my knowledge and skills.
Your well-being and self-improvement is not a priority for your capitalist employer, especially given ideological changes over the past 70 or so years. They would just as rather use you up, throw you away, and replace you with something else, if that was more convenient for them.
Isn't it wonderful to be on your own? Remember that next time someone talks about starting a union.
It does seem to have ai pacing and ends with a question.
> The part that actually hurts is who is left.
That line actually made me suspicious. Op doesn't respond, also has a hidden profile.
This stuff is all over reddit now.
I wish people stopped posting what Pangram said. Pangram set an impossible task before them — either they're grifters or naive. They use a magic box to determine whether someone else used a magic box, giving you a bullshit result.
It's a reddit post - it ending by asking if others have had a shared experience hardly seems out of the ordinary.
This thread is discussing something that's not real. People are forming opinions and discussing it. Unless everyone's a bot?
Top-rated reply tells submitter to solve their AI problem by adding more AI.
Magnificent.
"Find the things that you did that are badly, and do them better. Add a directive to claude.md to do it right the first time, next time."
If AI codes better than humans, I don't understand why it has a dozen copies of stuff everywhere. Even people who suck don't suck that much. I don't even understand how you can get away with it unless you're writing functional code.