Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.
Meh, right now, and only if you’re trying to replace the work force. At is current state, on a $30 a month Copilot plan you’ll already see a huge gain in efficiency with supervised coding and agents doing minor chores and maintenance.
The average coder isn’t better then opus 4.6. No, is not ready to run production code bases unsupervised. Yes, it’s absolutely ready to do many many simple tasks autonomous and more complex coding with supervision.
If you take even a week to try out this shit with an eye for what’s possible currently and have an ounce of common sense, I fail to see how folks don’t realize this will absolutely change how software is delivered. Yes humans will be involved but there will be much much less direct coding and a lot more supervision over multiple concurrent tasks that have had the time to delivery cut significantly.
I use these tools extensively, and they absolutely do not replace the need for a coder. The reality is that they’re fundamentally incapable of telling whether something is correct or not in the business sense. And Simply churning out a ton of wrong code really fast doesn’t actually help anybody.
They certainly can be a help for a developer. For example, I can fluently write code in any language now even if I’m not familiar with the stack or syntax. A skill that would’ve taken months of effort to build previously. But in terms of actual workflow, it’s not all that much faster because I still have to review what the tool is doing, and human comprehension is still the bottleneck in the whole process.
Meh, right now, and only if you’re trying to replace the work force. At is current state, on a $30 a month Copilot plan you’ll already see a huge gain in efficiency with supervised coding and agents doing minor chores and maintenance.
The average coder isn’t better then opus 4.6. No, is not ready to run production code bases unsupervised. Yes, it’s absolutely ready to do many many simple tasks autonomous and more complex coding with supervision.
If you take even a week to try out this shit with an eye for what’s possible currently and have an ounce of common sense, I fail to see how folks don’t realize this will absolutely change how software is delivered. Yes humans will be involved but there will be much much less direct coding and a lot more supervision over multiple concurrent tasks that have had the time to delivery cut significantly.
I use these tools extensively, and they absolutely do not replace the need for a coder. The reality is that they’re fundamentally incapable of telling whether something is correct or not in the business sense. And Simply churning out a ton of wrong code really fast doesn’t actually help anybody.
They certainly can be a help for a developer. For example, I can fluently write code in any language now even if I’m not familiar with the stack or syntax. A skill that would’ve taken months of effort to build previously. But in terms of actual workflow, it’s not all that much faster because I still have to review what the tool is doing, and human comprehension is still the bottleneck in the whole process.