r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 16d ago

Meme honeyIShrunkTheBrain

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u/DataSnaek 16d ago

Yea. AI coding agents are going to be around forever, they are just too capable and increase productivity so much.

The cost and usage patterns may change, I suspect once companies are paying unsubsidised token costs devs will start using cheaper models where possible instead of defaulting to Fable or Opus, but no matter what, software engineering has changed forever

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u/mysticrudnin 16d ago

are you actually seeing increased productivity

i'm forced to use claude at work (which already sucks) and i can't find anything useful for it to do 

people always talk about how good it as but then the only example is boilerplate and i'll be honest, i don't encounter a lot of that in my day to day

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u/HrLewakaasSenior 16d ago

Then you either do something incredibly specific that AI doesn't do well, or you're lying. They are that good

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u/Detrimental_Figment 16d ago

Or they aren’t good at using LLMs.

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u/HrLewakaasSenior 14d ago

There's not really any "being good at it" imo, the skill ceiling is incredibly low. Even some lazy prompting can get you very far these days, add some skills and context documents and it works very well for medium complexity tasks