alt Hacker NewsIf you listen to people on HN you could think AI is not increasing productivity or is even having a net negative effect.
I think the reality is different.
In this thread I saw the resume of an engineer affected by this Cloudflare layoff. In the resume he claimed that adopting opencode in his workflow, he shipped an integration in half the time it took peers without AI assistance for similar projects.
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imiric • today at 10:20 AM
Shipping is just a milestone. We all know that "AI" can produce code much faster than any human.
Productivity should be measured over time and take into account the cost of maintenance, reliability, amount of issues, etc.
I’m sitting in an airport after spending a week with a client. They’ve killed off one of their enterprise saas subscriptions with an internal ai assisted effort and are looking to kill more. Granted, they are extremely competent but software isn’t their business. There may be something to the saaspocolypse.