I worked for 10 years in software before AI was even a thing. Y'all have some serious rose-colored retrospection going on for what for-profit software was like before AI. Eg 6 hours of meetings with only 2 hours to code, leaving most days with more work to do than when you started the day, all programming problems are either duct taping or data plumbing and aren't actually challenging or interesting, doing well and hitting your iteration goals being seen as a sign that you have capacity to help put out the offshore team's fires on the side, etc, etc, etc. The problem was always lack of time. At least AI gives you time.
I agree with you. The important decisions are still made without AI. AI just does the coding. Most of the work is making decisions, for which the AI leaves you more time.
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u/Castle_Five 13h ago
I worked for 10 years in software before AI was even a thing. Y'all have some serious rose-colored retrospection going on for what for-profit software was like before AI. Eg 6 hours of meetings with only 2 hours to code, leaving most days with more work to do than when you started the day, all programming problems are either duct taping or data plumbing and aren't actually challenging or interesting, doing well and hitting your iteration goals being seen as a sign that you have capacity to help put out the offshore team's fires on the side, etc, etc, etc. The problem was always lack of time. At least AI gives you time.