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Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?

news.ycombinator.com·8 days ago

A Hacker News discussion where a developer describes experiencing significant productivity gains from AI coding tools, questioning whether companies should fire developers or build better products. The poster describes AI handling 'boilerplate, libraries, build-tools, and refactoring' with 'gigantic' gains, suggesting human oversight becomes less necessary over time. This represents real-world evidence of AI displacement concerns in software development.

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