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Comment by roenxi

Being efficient at writing code can barely make someone a 5x engineer. A team of people who write code effectively is easy to do.

Hyperproductivity in software is all about deciding what problems to tackle. Richard Hipp isn't worried about chipotle restaurant orders in golang, he's worried about how to store data reliably. That isn't a coding puzzle that ChatGTP is likely to help with. Either ChatGTP can do the whole thing itself (not yet the case) or it is a minor productivity boost because the hard part is articulating the problem.

Writing code quickly really isn't a challenge that high performing software engineers need to tackle. ChatGTP is a cool tool, we're all going to be using things like it in a few years, it'll change everything. But it won't make any old engineer a rival to the big names in software engineering.

parent roenxi 3 years ago

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