[rufius]

I don’t think AI makes me 10x more productive. It does make me close to 10x less bored though.

Much of production software engineering is writing boiler plate, building out test matrices and harnesses, scaffolding structure. And often, it’s for very similarly shaped problems at their core regardless of the company, organization, or product.

AI lets me get a lot of that out of the way and focus on more interesting work.

One might argue that’s a failure of tools or even my own technique. That might be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m less bored than I used to be.

[coltonv]

I'm happy to hear that! I hope you felt seen by this line from the article:

> Oh, and this exact argument works in reverse. If you feel good doing AI coding, just do it. If you feel so excited that you code more than ever before, that's awesome. I want everyone to feel that way, regardless of how they get there.

[te_chris]

100%. It's made me like dev again because my head can be used for things other than remembering arcania - this may be a curse of using languages like Ruby and Elixir which mostly don't have great tooling.

I enjoyed the article, fwiw. Twitter was insufferable before Elon bought it, but the AI bro scene is just...wow. An entire scene who only communicate in histrionics.