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I don’t want to just dismiss the productivity increase. I feel 100% more productive on throw away POCs and maybe 20% more productive on large important code bases.

But when I actually sit down and think it through, I’ve wasted multiple days chasing down subtle bugs that I never would have introduced myself. It could very well be that there’s no productivity gain for me at all. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the numbers showed that was the case.

But let’s say I am actually getting 20%. If this technology dramatically increases the output of juniors and mid level technical tornadoes that’s going to easily erase that 20% gain.

I’ve seen codebases that were dominated my mid level technical tornadoes and juniors, no amount of guardrails could ever fix them.

Until we are at the point where no human has to interact with code (and I’m skeptical we will ever get there short of AGI) we need automated objective guardrails for “this code is readable and maintainable”, and I’m 99.999% certain that is just impossible.



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