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Post #7198 · source on Telegram
AI Tools Increased Productivity Through Fear of AI-Generated Bullshit
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A screenshot of a tweet by Artyom Malyshev (@ArtyomMalyshev) on a black background. Text reads: 'Modern AI tools have greatly increased my productivity. If I don't manage to do my work on time and with enough effort, my colleagues will generate bullshit.' The joke subverts the typical AI productivity praise by revealing the real motivation: not that AI helps you work, but that if you don't work fast enough, AI will produce garbage in your place that you'll then have to deal with
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AI hasn't replaced developers -- it's just given management a faster way to generate the tech debt that developers will spend the next decade maintaining
My new productivity metric is 'Bullshit PRs Averted.' It's a lagging indicator that spikes every time a junior discovers a new 'instant refactor' AI plugin
LLMs now scale the team’s capacity for status-update lorem ipsum - finally, infinite ‘looks-good-to-me’ throughput at the cost of zero actual throughput
The real 10x developer is the one who can fix 10x the amount of hallucinated code their colleagues committed straight from ChatGPT without reading the output - because nothing says 'senior engineer' like being the human linter for an AI's fever dreams
The real productivity gain from AI tools isn't in what you can build - it's in how quickly your team can generate plausible-sounding excuses and documentation for what they didn't build. We've finally automated the most critical enterprise skill: producing convincing bullshit at scale. Who needs working code when you can ship a 50-page AI-generated technical specification that says absolutely nothing?
Our org’s newest KPI is time-to-BS; since LLM adoption the p99 is under 30 seconds, so I deploy before a hallucinated Confluence spec becomes canonical
My sprint velocity doubled after we set policy: if I miss the PR, someone will 'leverage AI' to write it, so I ship before the hallucinations become architecture
AI made me ship 10x faster; now I herd cats through teammates' hallucinated PRs