AI is accelerating my work...work which only exists because of AI.
If I had to do my individual tasks without AI, I would be slower. But if I take a step back, I'm really not changing the world any faster than I was before.
If I had to do my individual tasks without AI, I would be slower. But if I take a step back, I'm really not changing the world any faster than I was before.
At work, they mostly let me increase quality, because it's easy to say find all parsers in my code base and fuzz them.
Of course, you can make a giant pile of doggy-doo-doo, but that was always true, just you can now make an epic Giza-sized pile.
Yeah but were more likely to learn how bad your code was in the process. I see people oblivious to their slop putting pressure on others to merge it.
The other place they are amazing is in working with legacy code bases. I mean, the kind the dev team always wants to throw away. First, even if you do want to throw it away, you can first find out what it does and realize it does more than you think it does. You can also create integrations to more modern components which can be used to extend it. You can also create a pretty decent test suite if you do not have one. And, once the behaviour has good test coverage, you can re-write it into something more modern. You can even completely change the architecture while ensuring compatible external behaviour. Remember, this is all in place of “throw it away and start over from scratch, only to discover that the scope is much larger than expected”.
It’ll still take weeks with AI in the picture, but for some reason management is more willing to plan it when they also have the additional token bills to pay.
Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.
The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.
I mean, I have finished more side projects than before. So they do change it. Just not as dramatically.
We would be using LLM-generated compilers, an LLM-generated OS, an LLM-generated browser, LLM-generated databases, etc. etc. etc. etc, and not only are we not using all of those things, we're not using a single one of those things. Nobody is buying LLM-generated games, nobody is using LLM-generated consumer applications that replace Photoshop or Final Cut or Blender or Unity ("PhotoCraft" is itself an admitted scam from its own prompter, who outright confessed here that he lied about its capabilities on Reddit to build hype), nobody is accomplishing anything of economic value. LLMs are obviously hundreds of times more "productive" than humans, so the moment they can reach 100, all of these things would happen basically overnight, and yet none of them have happened. Curious, isn't it?
You have the perfect verifier.
I know AI bros are allergic to reading, but at least feed my reply to a clanker and get it to summarise for you before ignoring what I wrote. This lying con artist went on a media hype tour claiming, with no qualifications, that he would have "100% parity" with the entire Adobe suite in a month (this was a month ago, by the way). He then admitted here on HN that he was lying in other places to build hype and that that claimed goal of 100% parity in a month would not be accomplished[1][2]. His own clankers have revised their own made-up estimate from 82% parity down to 45%:
> These numbers replace the 2026-10-03 estimate (82% "of the way", 140–220 agent-hours to 95%, kept below for the record). That estimate counted feature surface and was far too optimistic"[3]
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962334
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961661
[3]https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/blob/main/docs/targe...
You people, really this entire industry, are completely bereft of a single intelligent thought, the only thing you all can do is lie, lie, lie. The multi-trillion dollar scam, the entire US economy centered around how long three of the world's most notorious liars and their army of MLM artists can keep the charade going and get rubes like you to unironically shill their scamware as though any professional in the world is using it over Photoshop.
Pets.com was an ignominious scam but the internet flourished after a cleansing.
Do you think anyone will pay for photoshop in 10 years, when a free version can be conjured up just by screen capturing all the interactions professionals have with photoshop?
> how PostgreSQL is having dozens of bugs discovered and fixed via LLMs
The PostgreSQL article was specifically about how the LLMs were incapable of fixing bugs, meaning they had to delay their next major version because humans were unable to deal with the volume of issues reported. I did not make a claim that LLMs are useless, could not help review code, etc, but there is a difference between a useful tool and something that generates production-ready software wholesale.
This is what "100" looks like if you try to generate a DB from scratch: https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4 - written in Rust, ""formally verified"", scammed AI-pilled investors out of $90 million for a database that fundamentally doesn't work in any capacity whatsoever.
The subthread was also about 80-100. This seems like a goal post move.
>The PostgreSQL article was specifically about how the LLMs were incapable of fixing bugs
We must have read different articles. This one does not say that, as best as I can tell: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19...
Speak for yourself :)
More and more, I am using half finished as a polished product, but pragmatically very useful software I have built myself.
More importantly, I see no reason to polish this into a product. It is more useful in this half finished, easily moldable state.
Like it use to make sense to bake the clay and sell the hardened output but now I want to keep the soft clay so it can be molded to my changing needs. I keep adding to a collection of these moldable states.
But its a lot less effort that when we didn't have LLM's.
Interestingly it does seem that it's still enough effort to prevent most folks from making that step though.
I despise AI but the thought of doing something the “old way” just makes me wince at how long it would take me to do anything that would take minutes with agents that I despise.
I touch grass whenever I can now.
Could you elaborate? What work are you doing which only exists because of AI?
I’m also required to explain how I use AI in my work. I must plan all of my future work, with an AI tool. Another AI assesses whether my work is aligning with planned work.
Before I work and after I work, there is a million circular references that exist solely because of AI. These have scaled because it’s so easy to do with AI, but the we’re wasting so much time doing a ton of extra things very efficiently.
Let me do my job. My manager should know how I’m doing. Maybe highlight key wins. CSATs/etc go out every year.
This sounds truly Kafkaesque. And thank you for finally allowing me to use that word in earnest.
Kafka and Byzantium had a baby.
Imagine developers move faster because of AI programming! No lets create more slop for other slopmachines
It's not that deep—there were many more verticals outside of control plans, and there are now many more verticals outside of machine learning.
Or am I missing the point?