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blibbleyesterday at 7:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

the amount of people that work in technology and have never heard of amdahl's law always shocks me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

a 100% increase in coding speed means I then I get to spend an extra 30 minutes a week in meetings

while now hating my job, because the only fun bit has been removed

"progress"


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hnuser847yesterday at 8:38 PM

So if I'm understanding you correctly, prior to AI tools you spent 1 hour per week coding? And now you spend 30 minutes per week?

zhtyesterday at 8:16 PM

the number of people who have heard of Amdahl's law but don't know when to use "amount of X" vs "number of Y" always shocks me as well