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bwfan123 • today at 2:41 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Is there anything that says he is more efficient than 3 or 4 years ago.

This is a difficult question to answer ! I would ask a related question which is equally hard. Has AI-use increased your human cognitive capability or decreased it ?


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__s • today at 7:33 AM

Decreased it. I no longer carry the entire code base in my head. Used to be someone could describe issue to me & I could know exact line where bug was. Sometimes laying in bed I'd realize some line was wrong

I accept this loss because the productivity is there. & hope to retire in a few years if things don't go south. For people entering the field I worry