AI has made me personally more productive but overall it’s still a net negative because when you’re a “-x dev” the force multiplier from AI is overwhelming and soul crushing to everyone around you

throwatdem12311 on Hacker News

In the thread “Don't Paste the AI, please”

Helped: Using Claude to refactor and restructure bad code.

Got in the way: Offshore team shipping untested, incorrect AI-generated code.