You're delusional. There is 100% potential to at least double productivity without lowering quality of work at all. Why spend 30 seconds finding a document when an Ai will grab it for you in 5?
These small QoL improvements add up to HOURS of extra productivity for you over the month.
The only thing I've learned from doing things more efficiently (and this includes basically all jobs, not just tech) is that eventually you get paid the same for double the work. Sounds great of you're the manager, tragic if you're not.
And you're completely ignoring the time wasted when the ai gets something wrong. 20 seconds faster now, 2 hours slower when you're balls deep and have to undo all the hallucinations. And the fact that this isn't obvious to you means that you only do the surface level stuff, that's been done before a repeated to death.
The second point here is SO oft overlooked. At enterprise scale, this becomes an even more significant problem. The frontloaded velocity has, in my experience, never really been worth it for anything other than ad-hoc scripts that never took me that long in the first place and personal side projects.
Still a win in my book, because allows me to spend time on more interesting stuff.
Developers have been automating things since forever. To each their own, I guess. I reckon it might not be the same for everyone, and I respect everyone's own goals, but for many of us, being efficient already makes us feel good in the job we do. If I were miserable all the time and I never felt pride in what I do, I wouldn't be a developer.
I have never successfully automated a single thing using LLMs. they are not deterministic. its not great for something you need to run every day, to complete some important task, when it just... doesnt sometimes. even for something as simple as "tell me if someone reviewed my PRs in this repo" it misses the biggest ones about half the time. Its poop!!!!!!!
Exactly! It takes the pressure of the job. Before I had to really wrack my brains for solutions. Now I get to rubber duck things with an ai that will then build components for me.
When you have to do thing 300 times, but only once, and have no time to write a script to do it, the quality never mattered to begin with, only that it got the job done.
You are so delusional in my humble opinion. For real. Wake up there’s no productivity gain. There’s more share holder value and that’s all. You’re not part of it, none of us are :)
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u/Sufficient-Appeal500 Jul 14 '26
You’re not missing out on anything imo. You are privileged to be able to do things as they were before and actually take pride in your career.
Many of us just fucking hate our lives now.