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Comment by toastercat

6 months ago

No actual SWE believes AI can do 30-50% of their work. For me at least, it can maybe do 5-10% of my work; this usually involves scaffolding some test cases, generating some quick documentation, and just plainly replacing the Google Search -> Stack Overflow flow.

Cursor and Claude Code are by themselves awful engineers, who at best just save me a lot of keystrokes.

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