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Yeah, I think the joke I made was pre-AI, I would spend 95% of my energy thinking about what to do and 5% of my energy doing it.
Now I spend 96% of my time thinking about what to do and 4% of my time actually doing it.
So yeah, it's like a 20% improvement, but day-to-day it feels as hard as ever.
being used at companies that the cfo is now going what do you mean each engineer costs extra two thousand dollars per month what are things you're hearing about in that area because this is happening yeah so with i think with every technology there's a phase of like flexing where there's so many uh companies now that want to be seen as like we're so future-facing we're like
Our process is ahead of everyone else's.
Like you've got no chance you're going to catch up.
And they're all bragging about how much they're spending.
So there's like right now there's a push to be like each engineer is spending like $10,000 a month.
And that's like that's so worth it.
Like our business is so successful and so useful and so efficient that any amount of money is worth it.
And there's a lot of that narrative.
then there's like and that's fake that'll go away uh then there's a real narrative of like yeah these companies hire thousands of engineers if they literally cost a thousand dollars extra a month that like breaks your whole budget like that's not a a thing you can kind of casually do we're in a temporary period of like we're experimenting to see what's possible and and everyone's learning
i doubt this is going to be a sustainable thing like these companies were already pretty tight on what they could afford especially if they can't directly point to clear results of here's the issue right the net result of this i'm not saying this is the case but there is a world where the net result of all these ai coding tools is the same amount of work gets done but all the engineers are happier because their job is easier
That's not good enough for a lot of companies.
Yeah, no, that is a real thing.
It's kind of like, I mean, again, depends on if you have someone that's really good that has infinite opportunities,
Using Jira is a risk because they're going to be like, I hate using Jira every day.
And they're going to leave.
And I know people that have literally have done that.
So that's like always a dynamic.