I guess we've both been traumatized by modern linux distros?

Chuckling at the disclaimer 'No AI made by a human.' I doubt many web devs could tell you that because so many use AI now. I was speaking with a web dev this summer and he told me AI made him at least twice as productive. It's an arms race to the bottom imo.

Which begs the question, are people consciously measuring their productivity? If so, how? And did they do it the same way before and after using AI tooling?

Anecdotal, but I don't measure my productivity, because it's immeasurable. I don't want to be reduced to lines of code produced or JIRA tickets completed. We don't even measure velocity, for that matter. Plus when I do end up with a task that involves writing something, my productivity depends entirely on focus, energy levels and motivation.

One of the only studied made so far showed lower actual productivity despite higher self reported productivity. That study was quite limited but I would take self reported productivity with a huge grain of salt.

I tried Github CoPilot for about a year, I may try Claude for a bit sooner or later.

It felt like it got in the way about half the time. The only place I really liked it was for boilerplate SQL code... when I was generating schema migration files, it did pretty good at a few things based on what I was writing. Outside that, I don't feel like it helped me much.

For the Google search results stuff, Gemini, I guess... It's hit or miss... sometimes you'll get a function or few things that look like they should work, but no references to the libraries you need to install/add and even then may contain errors.

I watched a friend who is really good with the vibe coding thing, but it just seemed like a frustrating exercise in feeding it the errors/mistakes and telling it to fix them. It's like having a brilliant 10yo with ADD for a jr developer..

…that never stops asking you for more work.

And doesn’t bother you when the tab is closed.

I can see why a lot of high school and college kids are going to need to claw.

The issue is that you can't give AI a task and let it go off and it actually performs said task in a couple hours and then comes to ask for more... you have to pretty much baby sit it.

Now, I could see a single person potentially managing 2-3 AI sessions across different projects as part of a larger application. Such as a UI component/section along with one or more backend pieces. But then, you're going to need 2-3x the AI resources, network use, etc. Which is something I wouldn't mind experimenting with on someone else's dime.

Are you using project architecture, and rules documents?

for those wondering: No, its not "d-bus hell" ^^

It's David Bushell

Same here. This is f..n hilarious.

funny segmentation.