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The Productivity Mirage

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Re: The Productivity Mirage

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Post by grvdrm »

codethief wrote: post #8
grvdrm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not an engineer (by trade) so I am not as deep as many of you in the tooling. But this article mirrors my thinking on every new notes app, or new “second brain,” or somehow new or better version of Jira, etc. There are real productivity gains and losses and a lot of theatrics.

> better version of Jira Nah, man. I would be a LOT more productive if I didn't have to wait all day for Jira tickets to load every single time, or that dropdown to load, or that popover to show, …

That’s fair and I’m not saying there isn’t room for improvement. It’s a more general feeling - JIRA just being one example that I hear people hate (and try to make better). My gut in using or looking at JIRA told me the biggest problem was organization within JIRA and sticking to that system.

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Post by raincole »

nsoonhui wrote: post #13

Not entirely what's the point of the article is, because with AI I can clear my backlogs way faster than without it. How is this *not* real productivity gain?

Note entirely what's the point of your comment, but AI bros have the reputation of making every discussion about AI.

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Post by owebmaster »

nsoonhui wrote: post #13

Not entirely what's the point of the article is, because with AI I can clear my backlogs way faster than without it. How is this *not* real productivity gain?

Did your AI post this comment? It seems to be getting downvoted so I'm wondering if the productivity is positive in this case or negative? The same happens with AI clearing your backlog

Re: The Productivity Mirage

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Post by sublinear »

codethief wrote: post #8
grvdrm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not an engineer (by trade) so I am not as deep as many of you in the tooling. But this article mirrors my thinking on every new notes app, or new “second brain,” or somehow new or better version of Jira, etc. There are real productivity gains and losses and a lot of theatrics.

> better version of Jira Nah, man. I would be a LOT more productive if I didn't have to wait all day for Jira tickets to load every single time, or that dropdown to load, or that popover to show, …

Just whatever you do, don't open the network tab in your browser devtools.

Re: The Productivity Mirage

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Post by readthenotes1 »

I think this is something almost straight out of Fred Brooks mythical Man month set of essays, from observations in the 1960s.

Iirc, one of the essays had the moral " many software developers would rather work on the infrastructure to solve the problem than actually solve the problem"

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