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Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Before AI, refactoring was expensive, high risk, unclear payoff.

With AI, it’s cheap, higher risk, obvious payoff.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The obvious payoff being that engineers with an actual work ethic get to fix the mess.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    I also got to refractor a major headache away, it was finally cheap enough to do all in one go instead of putting in a new pattern and incrementally change. The "Do one, do one, now repeat" prompt pattern works really well for these.

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