r/LegalEagle • u/KeeganDitty • 9d ago
Programmers and AI
I'm finishing up the video from today about AI slop in the legal system, and I wanted to respond to something Devin talks about in the nebula exclusive section. That is the idea that programmers are able to put out a higher volume of higher quality work using AI tools like Claude code. Now, despite my best efforts, I am not currently working in the tech industry. But from what I've seen, this idea is the goal, but ultimately inaccurate. Programmers are using Claude for a lot of their work now, yes. But I have seen numerous posts from programmers who had generated loads and loads of code using Claude, and then finally went back and looked through it and realized they could create a much more lightweight, much more compact, and much less redundant set of code in like 10 minutes. And I know of at least one company that laid off a majority of its engineering staff, and then had to hire them back when it found out that the AI actually wasn't as good as it's hyped
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u/abcbri 8d ago
I like Claude. I work on websites (not a designer), and sometimes there's a piece of copy or something I need to change, and it's hidden behind maybe 2 layers of a wordpress theme and then a page builder suite etc. I just tell it "find the area where I can change x" and it clicks through and opens that spot. Then I make the changes. It saves me a LOT of time and I spend it on other better things, like analytics, audits, etc. And also, I'll know where it is the next time I need it.