YHK - yet another hacker news clone

we measure productivity compared to 1960s-era punch card programming, obviously. I'm a 10000000x developer

> Tasks so small that AI can do them in 10 minutes, were you would take almost 3 hours.

Re: 100x productivity that's still not technically correct (the best form of correct), is it? 3 hours is 180 minutes. Agent would have to get it done in 1.8 minutes.

What is this curious scaling obstacle that is preventing them from going to 1000x+?

One thing I never understood about the "Nx Engineer" trope is if it's supposed to mean "one team member who achieves as much as N average team members", "one solo dev who achieves as much as an average N-person team", or "one solo dev who achieves as much as N average solo devs". Those seem like wildly different scales, and it seems like everyone who talks about it means something different.

> 10x a salary of $70.000/year (~avg salary in USA) is 700k€/year. Imagine the lifestyle change

No, no it isn't.

> I bet they are measuring lines of code, MRs or deployments.

My previous employ was at one point being courted by an AI coding agent company to push their agent on us, internally; after a trial period, they sent us pretty graphs show us the "increase in productivity", which as TFA correctly guesses, was MRs.

I double checked the numbers, and … the books were cooked. This was pointed out and "oh it was some bug in the script we use that's all fixed now" but of course, … the graphs weren't regenerated or corrected. (And also, of course, the correction would not have been in their favor.)