SpicyLemonZest

I was selling a small subcompact a while back, and literally 100% of the interest came from parents wanting a first car for their kid. It's a big but very price sensitive market.

I'm happy to learn new things to increase my output! What I've found is not an effective use of my time, though, is dealing with alleged productivity increases that require large amounts of setup. I don't set up any manual integrations with my IDE, API or LLM or otherwise.

> This is straightforward user error. Almost every top post in the past few months has some combination of OP using outdated tools, using 0 MCPs, not using planning modes, not using reasoning models, and then complaining that the output is not up to par. I don’t think this is “user error”. When I open up Vim or VSCode, I don’t have to learn new acronyms or set special modes to generate workable code. I just have to start typing. If LLM coding is the future, presumably someone will develop a tool that uses MCPs and sets modes for me; why do I need to be on the leading edge of this?

I think there’s a lot of people who just see a massive psychological difference between spending an hour writing your own code and spending an hour correcting AI-written code. When I envision “AI is writing all my PRs”, I imagine shipping dozens of PRs a day because I’m no longer constrained by anything but my imagination. I suspect you think the same as me, but that’s not what the people who go around saying it seem to mean.

Bureaucracy is just what a large number of people with different constraints looks like. You can’t hold a meeting with all of the 1000 people your improvement will affect, so you have to navigate the mandates and approvers they delegate, and the approvers can only know what the effects of your improvement will be in vague generalities. I guarantee there’s an IT person at your company right now who desperately wants to push an improvement that will break your dev workflow, and she’s just as frustrated as you that the bureaucracy is blocking it.