I see much more histeria and false but extremely high hopes, than real deal from where I sit (deceloper at faanglike high tec company).
Looks like the higher the management, the farther away from real engineering work — the more excitement there is and the less common sense and real understanding of how developers and llms work.
> Are you 10x more efficient?
90% of my time is spent thinking and talking about the problem and solutions. 10% is spent coding (sometimes 1% with 9% integrating this into existing infrastructure and processes). Even with ideal AGI coding agent id be only 10% more efficient.
Imagine a very bright junior developer. You still are heavily time taxed mentoring him and communicating.
Not many non technical people (to my surprise) get it.
Based on posts and comments here there are plenty “technical enough” people who don’t understand the essence of engineering work (software engineering in particular).
Spitting out barely (yet) working throwaway grade code is an impressive accomplishment for TikTok, but it has very little to do with complex business critical software most real engineers deal with everyday
Looks like the higher the management, the farther away from real engineering work — the more excitement there is and the less common sense and real understanding of how developers and llms work.
> Are you 10x more efficient?
90% of my time is spent thinking and talking about the problem and solutions. 10% is spent coding (sometimes 1% with 9% integrating this into existing infrastructure and processes). Even with ideal AGI coding agent id be only 10% more efficient.
Imagine a very bright junior developer. You still are heavily time taxed mentoring him and communicating.
Not many non technical people (to my surprise) get it.
Based on posts and comments here there are plenty “technical enough” people who don’t understand the essence of engineering work (software engineering in particular).
Spitting out barely (yet) working throwaway grade code is an impressive accomplishment for TikTok, but it has very little to do with complex business critical software most real engineers deal with everyday