Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?

Post by jryan49 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #120

maccard wrote: post #61

> try it, you might actually be amazed. I keep being told this and the tools keep falling at the first hurdle. This morning I asked Claude to use a library to load a toml file in .net and print a value. It immediately explained how it was an easy file format to parse and didn’t need a library. I undid, went back to plan mode and it picked a library, added it and claimed it was done. Except the code didn’t compile. Th…

My friend, with all due respect, I don't think this is a problem with the AI. I don't know anything about DotNet, but I just fired up Claude Code in an empty directory and asked it to create an example dotnet program using the Tomlyn library, it chugged away and ~5 minutes later I did a "grep Deserialize *" in the project and it came up with exactly the line you wanted (in your comment here) it to produce: var model…

Post by jaypathade5291 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:33 AM UTC

Post by TJ_FLEET » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:38 AM UTC

dismalaf wrote: post #155

In my experience the speed gains are real (kind of) but not in a "the AI writes code" kind of way, more of a "the AI is Google on steroids that can reference the docs very quickly". I've found it saves me a ton of time searching through documentation, googling and dealing with bad search results or ads, etc... But it doesn't write good code. So a productivity boost, not 10x, but a bit. And no, I wouldn't fire anyone.…

Post by microbuilderco » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC

Post by microbuilderco » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC