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AI usage patterns in software teams
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Re: AI usage patterns in software teams
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this just an opinion? If so, fair. If it's an attempt at rebutting their claims etc, it'd be easier to interact if you provided some data, or concrete observations :)
The bullshit asymmetry principle suggests that once something is identified as bullshit, we shouldn't spend much time to write an excruciatingly detailed refutation.
Invoking the bullshit card on opposing views, in order not to have to elaborate your own pov, seems counterproductive, if the aim of your participation in a discussion is to test your own hypotheses about the world - or in any way gain or deliver insights.
Re: AI usage patterns in software teams
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the value capture question, it's really not clear that the ability to write code at superhuman speed actually translates to an increase in the speed with which we can create new, better technology products that customers will pay more money for, vs. just enabling layoffs.
You could say the same thing about compilers versus assemblers, high-level languages versus low-level ones, and services and libraries versus monolithic programs. All other things being equal, increasing the speed of some part of the development process will increase the overall pace of development. However, By Amdahl's law that increase will be sublinear, and that is why we should take "pull requests" as an imperfec…
> You could say the same thing about compilers versus assemblers, high-level languages versus low-level ones, and services and libraries versus monolithic programs.
Right, but we didn't invest a trillion dollars of capital into any of those things in the span of a couple years, thus forcing them to capture value and show a return on such a massive investment.
Re: AI usage patterns in software teams
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think their point is that there's business value in the usage data and linear is using that value in a way that benefits them but not the customers they got it from. It reminds me of matt levine's reframing of insider trading where it's not about fairness it's about theft. You're supposed to get secret insights and use them to get an edge. What you can't do is get an edge for yourself with secret insights that your…
My company uses Linear. The data presented in this blog post is worthless to me and the company. It can be crudely summarized as “agents and agentic development processes are conducting more Linear operations.” Duh!
Whether you make a good trade with the stolen information is spurious though.
I don't believe this very strongly. Again it's a contract issue not a moral one. But the metaphor still holds I think.