there's no way I would have been able to do 5% of this work in the same amount of time without using AI
DonHopkins on Hacker News
no way I would have been able to do 5% of this work in the same amount of time
In the thread “Revenge of the Junior Developer”, replying to this comment
Helped: Refactoring complex multi-repo codebase and learning new technologies.
… Bash, SQL, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and ML models, from multiple repos with Google Cloud Build to a monorepo with GitHub actions, and it's no cake walk, a huge amount of work, I'm learning and applying a whole lot of new stuff, meticulously documenting every part of the system, making it rock solid, DRY, with extensive logging and error handling, and there's no way I would have been able to do 5% of this work in the same amount of time without using AI. You don't HAVE to be lazy, instead you can work as hard as you've ever worked without AI and get a hell of a lot more done while learning new things, if you so choose to. …