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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by martinohansen »

noodletheworld wrote: post #249

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

If human productivity and unemployment increases at the same time the obvious solution for regulators will be to decrease the work week from 5 to 4 days or even further

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by ghuntley »

noodletheworld wrote: post #249

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

> That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work; probably the work of other developers who will be fired.

Correct - covered here in my talk - https://ghuntley.com/six-month-recap/

AI isn't going to take anyone's jobs. Your co-worker who knows how to use multiple agents at a time and automates their job function will.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by dangero »

lordnacho wrote: post #15

I'm loving the new programming. I don't know where it goes either, but I like it for now. I'm actually producing code right this moment, where I would normally just relax and do something else. Instead, I'm relaxing and coding. It's great for a senior guy who has been in the business for a long time. Most of my edits nowadays are tedious. If I look at the code and decide I used the wrong pattern originally, I have to…

Have you had the realization that you could never go back to dealing with all the minutia again?

LLMs have changed me. I want to go outside while they are working and I am jealous of all the young engineers that won’t lose the years I did sitting in front of a screen for 12 hours a day while sometimes making no progress on connecting two black boxes.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

martinohansen wrote: post #261
noodletheworld wrote: post #249

There is a fundamentally unfortunate reality here which is quite problematic. Namely, you don’t deserve to be paid for working 8 hours if you only worked for 30 minutes over an eight hour period. I don’t care if you personally agree with that or not, the reality is that businesses believe it. That means, sooner or later there will be a great rebalancing where people will be required to do significantly more work ; pr…

If human productivity and unemployment increases at the same time the obvious solution for regulators will be to decrease the work week from 5 to 4 days or even further

You only work 5 days?

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

trashtensor wrote: post #259
HWR_14 wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am hopeful that AI leads to a future with mandatory 10 hour work weeks.

Why would that happen when they can have mandatory 50 hour work weeks?

People keep thinking the Jetsons is going to happen.

Soylent Green is a lot closer to the reality of capitalism.

Re: Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Post by orangecat »

tempodox wrote: post #137
Benjammer wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you paying for the higher end models? Do you have proper system prompts and guidance in place for proper prompt engineering? Have you started to practice any auxiliary forms of context engineering? This isn't a magic code genie, it's a very complicated and very powerful new tool that you need to practice using over time in order to get good results from.

That's the beauty of the hype: Anyone who cannot replicate it, is “holding it wrong”.

Or maybe it works well in some cases and not others?
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