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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI to Improve Productivity

Hamilton Greene

In this post we explore how Software Engineers use AI to improve their productivity - What AI is good at, what AI is bad at, and how much more productive tech workers actually are using AI.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/labs/2024-10_software-engineers-ai

Chapters

01:30 - What do I mean when I say AI?
03:00 - AI is good at answering natural language questions
09:40 - AI is good for exploring a space and generating ideas
14:30 - AI is good at generating examples, references, and drafts
17:15 - AI not good at coding full systems and features
21:55 - AI not an expert
26:20 - How much more productive are Software Engineers using AI?

Links:

- How I Generated 100k webpages for my Side Project using AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9PYsDGVHYg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to call Open AI's API with F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pthBVT7Aio&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Were Tesla’s Optimus Robots actually Autonomous (or Remote-Controlled by Humans)? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChQwNhtFSkA&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer. I build Simple Scalable Systems to make the world 1% better.

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- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY

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