<div dir="ltr">It's done a great job of shifting where one spends time.<div><br></div><div>It used to be the case that development of anything nontrivial was iterative - at best, you either build a janky MVP and improve it continually, or spend a year analyzing and designing.</div><div><br></div><div>A metric I think about often is "new project starts". My day job has me working on a solution with ~20 sub-projects, 12 of which existed when I started working here about a decade ago. Meaning that, on average, a team of ~10 developers was starting one new project a year. That's one project-start per person-decade.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, with AI coding tools, I can spin up a proof-of-concept in less than a day. If someone requests changes at 9am, I can often have an implementation shippable by 5pm. That implementation may not be <i>correct</i> - but if it's not, that generally gets caught before noon the following day. That cycle used to take roughly a week (with an additional few weeks of delay for additional verification before code went live).</div><div><br></div><div>And that's at a client who has to worry about security and compliance. On personal projects where there aren't regulatory pressures, I can basically create one janky app a day, or one polished app in a week. And I can do that, for better or for worse, without expending real brainpower.</div><div><br></div><div>But that style of development doesn't take care of marketing, or community management, or any of the other things that a "real" company does. It's like having a Wozniak with no Jobs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My interest in synth-diy is amateur rather than professional, so that's "fine". But I do worry about what it spells for corporate innovation in the longer term (as well as the pipeline problem, as basically nobody seems to be hiring entry-level software developers anymore.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM Steve via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>With the sometimes usable seeming
results, the speed certainly seems appealing.</div>
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<div>On youtube, there is a German(1)
language video called something like "AI burnout ist real", where
a computery guy talks about audience e-mails about the topic.<br>
How many programmers these days are compelled by managers to use
AI, and their jobs devolved into babysitting and fixing "AI slop",
which, after some time, gets so mentally taxing that the rate of
finding problems gets severely diminished and things are just
waved through, and supposedly the overall quality of the code base
takes a dive.<br>
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(1) I guess auto translate works reasonably well by now, for
anyone who cares<br>
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- Steve<br>
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<div>On 23.04.2026 11:14, Brother Theo via
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<div>Touchy subject that I need to talk about. I just had Claude
AI generate a CSound program for a complex effect. Not only
did it hit all the points I gave it, but it even included some
stuff I forgot, like a sound source, but also gave me a few
ideas on how to operate it. And it took less than 15 minutes
to do.</div>
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<div>I know a lot of you will rebel against the idea of AI. I
was one of you. But this experience has opened my eyes to the
possibilities. This piece of code would have taken me hours to
develop. Claude did it in a fraction of the time. </div>
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<div>My buddy got me into this by telling me his experience. He
took a code base for a 2007 synth and had Claude make changes
and add features. Claude even found bugs and fixed them
without prompting. The new code is working and is being
tested. </div>
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<div>It is a brave new world. Should we feel sorry for the
coders?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Timothy Ressel
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<div>FutureRetro Synthesizers</div>
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