Comment by vitaflo
6 days ago
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.
6 days ago
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.
I'm a manager of software engineers. I have absolutely no intention of paying engineer B the same as half-as-productive engineer A.
Figuring out the best way to determine productivity is still a hard problem, but I think it's a category error to think that productivity gains go exclusively to the company.
If all (or even most) of the engineers on your team who were previously your equal become durably twice as productive and your productivity remains unchanged, your income prospects will go down, quite possibly to zero.
I think it matters very much if the person next to me is 2x as productive and I'm not.
Isn't this the case regardless of whether you use AI or not? Is this an argument for being less productive?