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Comment by dominotw

12 hours ago

I dont mean this as a shade but ppl who are not coders now seem to think "coding is now solved" and seem to be pushing absurd ideas like shipping software with slack messages. These ppl are often high up in the chain and have never done serious coding.

Stripe is apparently pushing gazzaliion prs now from slack but their feature velocity has not changed. so what gives?

how is that number of pr is now the primary metric of productivity and no one cares about what is being shipped or if we are shipping product faster. Its total madness right now. Everyone has lost their collective minds.

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rkomorn  12 hours ago

I ask myself the same question.

I'm not seeing the apps, SaaS, and other tools I use getting better, with either more features or fewer bugs.

Whatever is being shipped, as an end user, I'm just not seeing it.

  • dominotw  12 hours ago

    cto and ceo are now feeling insane pressure to show how they are using ai but its not evident in output. So now they've resorted to blabbering publicly about prs, lines of code ect to save face. And ofcourse ppl giving them voice and platform have their own agendas that prevent them from asking "so what exactly have you shipped stripe from million pr/day".

    Its baffling to see these comments on hacknernews though. I guess you have to prove that you are not a luddite by making "ai forward" predictions and show that you "get it"