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In my tests of using AI to write most of my code, just writing the code yourself(with Copilot) and doing manual rounds with Claude is much faster and easier to maintain.

So you can create a serious contender to Salesforce or Zapier in a week?

After spending a week coding exclusively with AI assistants, I got functional results but was alarmed by the code quality. I discovered that I didn't actually save much time, and the generated code was so complex and unfamiliar that I was scared to modify it. I still use Copilot and Claude and would say I'm able to work through problems 2-3x faster than I would be without AI but I wouldn't say I get a 10x improvement.

My projects are much more complex than standard CRUD applications. If you're building simple back-office CRUD apps, you might see a 10x productivity improvement with AI, but that hasn't been my experience with more complex work.

Yeah, my job is now automating tasks using AI and code instead of automating tasks with just code. The code part has gone down, and the abstraction has moved up a layer, but I have more work than ever.

This is the most level take I’ve seen.

So what is your prediction?

The thing I can't wrap my head around is that I work on extremely complex AI agents every day and I know how far they are from actually replacing anyone. But then I step away from my work and I'm constantly bombarded with “agents will replace us”.

I wasted a few days trying to incorporate aider and other tools into my workflow. I had a simple screen I was working on for configuring an AI Agent. I gave screenshots of the expected output. Gave a detailed description of how it should work. Hours later I was trying to tweak the code it came up with. I scrapped everything and did it all myself in an hour.

I just don't know what to believe.

Thanks for sharing. I hope you are right. It's hard to stay objective as things are changing so quickly.

In all of these posts I fail to see how this is engineering anymore. It seems like we are one step away from taking ourselves out of the picture completely.

Are you concerned that these tools will soon replace the need for engineers?

The market is currently valuing the stock based primarily on their robotaxi initiative and humanoid robots.

Trump said the trade agreement is terrible.

The word games I was referring to were your overly technical analysis of the term "illegal." In everyday conversation, people don't care about logical breakdowns of words. They find such arguments absurd and view those making these claims as out of touch. While you might see it as a justified position, most people perceive it as someone being pedantic/elitist with too much time on their hands.

I'm sorry that I assumed you belonged to a group on a political thread where everyone was trashing Trump. It was a dumb mistake to assume you are worried about the rise of the far right.

I don't care about political labels. These niche arguments are useless - they don't change anyone's mind. Both sides use these debates as examples to portray the other as extreme. I'm tired of discourse that claims to enlighten but only pushes people further apart, regardless of intent.