John Siracusa

It's like, even if you don't want to use AI, if you're programmed for this company, you're forced to use it because it's going to increase productivity and this, that, and the other thing.

It doesn't surprise me that it's not having productivity games.

And I'm not saying AI is a fad, but it reminds me of a lot of the sort of business fads that go around for practices that are good, things that are actually good, but that become sort of

trendy or popular or like mandatory to do and then companies will just force like everybody to do them even though they're good things like you know you pick agile which we always make fun of but all sorts of other sort of good programming practices that are actually good ideas and have longevity about you know ways to architect code or ways to organize people or whatever anytime there is any idea that is actually good in the technology industry it gets overused to the point where people hate it

And it causes negative productivity because people feel like they have to use it.

And AI is like that times a million.

That's why you see AI in every single product in the world and every feature.

And, you know, companies have entire releases where the only directive from the company is whatever you're doing in this company, I don't care.

Next release, you got to have AI something.

Reportedly, Apple did that.

Look at any product that you see.

See that all the time.

So it doesn't shock me that people aren't seeing productivity games.

It's not just because, oh, they're using it wrong.

It's because it's not all things to all people.

Um, and especially when we go into the essay writing and stuff like that as you as you start to stray more into like The other things that llms can do it becomes a lot spotty Um on the other hand in the hands of a skilled developer doing specifically the few things that it's actually very good at The value is tremendous like steve's trounce smith is just one person.

So it's annotated or whatever But there's a reason lots of coders are out there saying

This is really doing things for me faster, better than I was before.

And as I said in the last episode, it really is a skill to learn how to use these things.

So even Steve Trout and Smith would admit that he's climbing that learning curve of how to actually use this tool productively.