we lose eng time on the unknowns that gen ai doesn't really help with: debugging an issue with a vendor's sdk
macphisto178 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How to explain to execs why gen AI hasn't 10x'd feature dev”, replying to this comment
Helped: Outsourcing coding portions once task details are known.
Got in the way: Debugging vendor SDKs, race conditions, and bot mitigation.
… building table X with N fields, build a service that does XYZ, etc), the coding portion doesn't take a lot of time. So the cost saving of outsourcing that to Claude/GPT/etc can be helpful, but it's not a game changer - team alignment is hard and figuring out what to build is hard - we lose eng time on the unknowns that gen ai doesn't really help with: debugging an issue with a vendor's sdk, identifying the cause of a race condition, figuring out how to mitigate a bot issue, etc.