Comment by Yokohiii
10 hours ago
Assuming that AI challenges all that is in my perception a bit simple.
> Brooks' No Silver Bullet
Just because a person can create code or "results" much faster now, it doesn't say anything about productivity. Don't mistake dev productivity for economic productivity.
> Kernighan's Law, which says debugging is twice as hard as writing the code
Debugging is such a vague term in these matters. An AI may be decent to figure out their error they introduced into their code after it runs its own tests. But a production bug, i.e. reported from a user, can be very hard for AIs due to their utter lack of context.
> Dijkstra on the foolishness of programming in natural language. > ... > Lehman’s Law, which states that as a system's complexity increases as it evolves, unless work is done to maintain or reduce it.
No clue what the argument is here, "people believe otherwise" isn't.
> Also, ultimately Jevons Paradox
Actually relevant tech people confirm the paradox in the long run. Companies slash jobs now because they tend consolidate in chaotic times.
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