What I’m taking from this is that software engineers spend most of our time on engineering software, and writing code is (as expected) a relatively small portion of that work.
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What I’m taking from this is that software engineers spend most of our time on engineering software, and writing code is (as expected) a relatively small portion of that work.
Imagine this for other engineering disciplines. “Wow structural engineers seem to spend most of their time on meetings and CAD and relatively little time physically building bridges with their hands! This is something AI can and should fix. I am very smart”
Amazon says developers spend 'just one hour per day' on actual coding
The company announced Amazon Q Developer, an AI tool designed to eliminate some of developers’ more tedious tasks.
Fortune (fortune.com)
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@kevinriggle this is business brain, it's like a 10yr old idea of what professions are. when they ask a business brain what software engineers do they say "coding". when they ask what an artist does they say "make pretty images". a writer? "put a lot of words in order".
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@lzg “what, the externally-visible work product is only _part_ of the work?????”
