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Comment by rerdavies

5 days ago

And in the meantime, the people you are competing with in the job market have already become 2x more productive.

Oh no! I'll get left behind! I can't miss out! I need to pay $100/month to an AI company or I'll be out of a job!

Hype hype hype! Data please.

  • What kind of "data" do you want? I'm submitting twice as many PRs with twice as much complexity. Changes that would take weeks take minutes. I generated 50 new endpoints for our API in a week. Last time we added 20 it took a month.

    • What kind of data would you want?

      I'm 100x as productive now that I eat breakfast while reciting the declaration of independence.

      You really should try it. Don't give up, it works if you do it just right.

      Edit: I realize this line of argument doesn't really lead anywhere. I leave you with this Carl Sagan quote:

      > Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

      (or perhaps we can just agree that claims require evidence, and not the anecdotal kind)

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    • Unless you’re being paid on a fixed bid it doesn’t matter. Someone else is reaping the rewards of your productivity not you. You’re being paid the same as your half-as-productive coworkers.

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