[adrianwaj]

"There's clearly a way to leverage these tools to turbocharge your productivity, like at least 2x or maybe even 10x. But what is it?"

Many will keep it a secret, a few will share, the remainder will turn it into a product. You could spend hours on HN and find best practices floating around. At some point a product will come along and equalize everything.

[muzani]

I don't think people mean to keep it a secret. It took me literally 2 hours to type my answer, because it's deeply ingrained as muscle memory and habit. It's probably much easier to explain in a two-way call, or better yet, a class.

Much of the time people don't even appreciate these answers; they get angry because what they really wanted to hear was that it's impossible.

But sometimes it's useful to rephrase thoughts and put it out for criticism.

[adrianwaj]

Well, I just read this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070173

Surprised it didn't get more upvotes. It says:

"AI Is a Mirror, Not an Equalizer"

well not yet anyway.

If that article is to be believed, there are organizations that are really working well in the areas of "Design Engineering" and "Context Engineering." It would be worthwhile aiming to work at one of those firms, if it is difficult to get to 10x productivity alone.

There's also probably going to be a new area of management consulting helping firms get to that high level of AI integration - could be a few years out, though.

I am thinking now a new type of organization could also arrive, like a Palantir 2.0.

CEOs will outsource their entire IT function to it after firing a lot of their staff. Also startup CEOs will sit down with a hologram and tell it what they want to do, and why they think they are uniquely positioned to execute on their vision compared to other humans in their field. The robot/hologram may end up working with a few humans in the same area, creating competition between them, but will eventually aim to drive them all to the ground in the end, like HAL.

But companies should be much more careful about where they host their "proprietary" code. Maybe some companies will start inventing their own languages and keep it in-house? Groups of companies may aggregate around their own AI? Why not groups of developers?

I shelved a music/entertainment/ticketing/touring startup from 15 years ago, built with Django that launched but never got any real users, as I put it on hold to focus on other things (crypto.) Perhaps people should look at working with multiple startups simultaneously and sticking with the one that takes off. If you got 10x productivity tomorrow, how are you going to leverage that? I like the idea of skipping equity and just have portions of revenue be returned to staff in real-time... "shortening the incentive-loop." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882238

Because 10x productivity not only f$$$$$ average developers, it f$$$$$ investors to, right?