alt Hacker NewsWhat do you do all day at your job?
Serious question. I think the reason that there's such a disconnect among AI-for-work users about whether it's a panacea or bullshit accelerator is that different software developers have massively different duties and conceptions about what their job is or should be.
1. Communicate with people about what to build, fix, or improve, and about our progress with current ongoing work.
2. Figure out what components already exist and what new things we need to build and how things should be integrated.
3. Actually build the things according to what was figured out in the previous step.
4. Review my own work and other people's work.
5. Release things and make sure they work.
6. Respond to emergent issues in things that have been released.
I find the current generation of AI tooling to be very useful for all of these tasks. Less so for task #1 than the others.
What are other people doing that is different?