I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
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I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
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Re: I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
#2Instead of mandatory AI workshops simply cancel all meetings with more than 3 people and no written agenda. Instead block the meeting time for productive work.
That’ll be 2000$ of advisory fees for the insane productivity gains I just unlocked you. You’re welcome
Re: I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
#3If the underlying workflow is noisy, ambiguous, or overloaded with coordination overhead, faster generation just produces more low-context output to review and reconcile.
Re: I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
#4It absolutely will make some things faster. Anyone that has ever churned out some boilerplate code with it knows that.
...but yeah most organizational processes & people aren't set up for leveraging it and roll out will be slow (same on learning where it does / doesn't work).
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#5It makes small teams without organizational overhead go lightning fast.
It might be the ultimate tool of disruption.
Re: I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
#6Instead of mandatory AI workshops simply cancel all meetings with more than 3 people and no written agenda. Instead block the meeting time for productive work. That’ll be 2000$ of advisory fees for the insane productivity gains I just unlocked you. You’re welcome
If people got paid for telling the truth you’d be rich.
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#7On the one hand, this is a clean post that explains exactly what a lot of us have been thinking and seeing on the job at large organizations doing tech work. Dear Author, I agree with you 110% and want everybody else to come to understand what you have written.
On the other hand, it feels like we've been over this tens of times recently, on HN specifically and IRL at work. Another blog post isn't going to convince leaders that this is how the world works when they are socially and financially incentivized to pretend like AI really will speed things up. So now I just wait for their AI projects to fail or go as slowly as previous projects and hope they learn something.
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#8> Yes, AI can generate code quickly (whether that’s a good thing is open for debate), but that doesn’t mean it’s generating the correct code.
No, the code is actually almost always correct. The way it’s added is probably not what you’re going to like, if you know your code base well enough. You know there’s some ceremony about where things are added, how they are named, how much comments you’d like to add and where exactly. Stuff like that seems to irritate people like me when not being done right by the agent, and it seems to fail even if it’s in the AGENTS.md.
> If you were to give human developers the same amount of feature/scope documentation you would also see your productivity skyrocket.
Almost 2 decades in IT and I absolutely do not believe this can ever happen. And if it does, it’s so rare, it’s not even worth talking about it.
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#9It makes small teams without organizational overhead go lightning fast. It might be the ultimate tool of disruption.
Exactly. The larger the organization the less percentage time devs actually are doing dev work and the less direct benefit there is from AI assisted coding tools.
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#10> Every software developer knows that you can’t make projects go faster just by typing faster. If that were the case we would all be taking typing lessons.
So well said.
AI is unveiling how the bureaucracy is the slow part.