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1. jimmyjazz14 · 1790714530 · focus · HN ↗

   I can't think of any use case for AI that is a necessity for myself (or people I know), even if coding agents (which I use every day) disappeared tomorrow it would only be a minor inconvenience that I had to write my own code again. Now lets contrast that with electricity or internet, if either of those went offline I would be on a call trying to get them restored asap, now as far as I know neither of those industries bring in $6T in revenue.

   1. bretpiatt · 1790714970 · focus · HN ↗

      If agentic coding isn't dramatically changing your productivity you're getting left behind. There's a clear difference between vibe coding and AI assisted software / systems engineering from how I think about things. With AI you can be massively more productive. I do a lot of things beyond code and this is what I've built in 2026 (quick snip from scc, it has proper excludes for node_modules and other pulled in deps that I didn't build) from ~code/ on my dev box:

        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        Language            Files       Lines    Blanks  Comments       Code Complexity
        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        TypeScript         10,705   2,445,724   191,695    71,737  2,182,292    167,330
        JSON                1,435     604,218        58         0    604,160          0
        Rust                1,260     718,912    56,372    57,773    604,767     65,562
        Markdown            1,087     162,160    36,375         0    125,785          0
        SQL                 1,046     129,795     6,142     7,389    116,264      1,344
        Python                705     168,359    22,710    23,235    122,414     17,962
        JavaScript            657     209,397     8,824     7,587    192,986     45,383
        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        Total              19,009   4,903,248   353,289   186,252  4,363,707    326,094
        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $179,262,721
        Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 98.79 months
        Estimated People Required (organic) 161.19
        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
        Processed 206,138,543 bytes, 206.139 megabytes (SI)
        ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

      1. batshit_beaver · 1790718362 · focus · HN ↗

         Absolute cinema - measuring software engineering productivity by lines of code in 2026.

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