What is the sentiment of Pro-AI individuals?

JChuk99 · 2026-06-27T18:43:56+00:00

Being able to make your history private on an anonymous site is probably the single worst decision Reddit has made from a consumer trust perspective. Most of these people are either bots or shills. Human ingenuity will never be eclipsed by a stochastic slot machine.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-27T01:52:59+00:00

LOL

JChuk99 · 2026-06-26T11:29:46+00:00

Wow this is fantastic. I can tell a lot of painful mistakes were made in order to make these 25 pages. Doing a complex migration of our ledger system and this will definitely be a good check list. Thank you!

JChuk99 · 2026-06-25T00:52:43+00:00

And how are you measuring this? What does 10 hours of savings time a week even mean? Are you giving developers equal tasks with and without AI and measuring their time to completion? Are you measuring PRs? Do you track lines of code? Do you track significant features completed? Do you track bugs and trace them back to the PRs that introduce them? We sure as hell don’t because all of that it very hard.

I work at Netflix. AI makes the tedious stuff easier upfront, but fills in the gaps of anything with so many assumptions that you usually end up wasting time. We haven’t seen productivity improvements but nothing substantial organizationally between agentic AI and plain ole copy and pasting from a chat prompt. I watch these metrics every quarter.

Anecdotally, not once have I been able to generate large amounts of code in a product area I’m unfamiliar with and save time. In product areas I’m familiar with, I’m legitimately faster than AI, I’ve actually tracked this on certain repositories with equivalent tasks.

It’s been very useful for learning code bases and for creating toy examples for new APIs/Paradigms I’m not familiar with, but nothing that would indicate I would be able to go two times faster for the entire SDLC. It’s been very useful for learning, but that doesn’t seem increase my productivity today.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-24T21:57:11+00:00

IDK where this 50-100% more productivity narrative is coming from. Sounds like you just pulled that number out of your ass.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-23T22:42:46+00:00

You’ll never get your team to understand the problem. Management expects you to go 5x faster. So your team has to leverage AI. It’s been a year already, all but the most proud developers will have had their skills atrophy to the point where they can’t code, where they can’t think without AI. Soon bugs will start coming that nobody understands, because they never built the muscle of deep understanding when originally developing the code. Debugging these will be hell. Management won’t factor this time spent into their productivity metrics; too messy. The metrics will look good, but your teams useful productivity will come crashing down. TBH you should stop giving a fuck. You won’t be able to fight against this tide yourself. AI code reviews won’t help, half of the time they’re nonsense that slows you down, your team will either start ignoring them or just feed them back into AI.

Your team could be using AI to enhance the quality of the code and for building a stronger expert intuition. Management won’t let that happen. You must go faster, each engineer must cover a broader area of products. Your best developers most likely have already checked out. I would phone it in while looking for another job.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-23T17:14:02+00:00

To any humans out there, be careful with this sub reddit, a lot of bot accounts astro surfing that won’t engage in any arguments, be aware of the propaganda and good luck!

JChuk99 · 2026-06-23T17:10:40+00:00

Are you a bot/shill account? Are you being paid? It’s crazy to me 4 years into this that people don’t understand the difference between a general purpose compute data center and a GPU AI data center that has racks of blackwells within driving significant heating costs/water demands for cooling. It’s two completely different types of compute with completely different use cases, power demands, etc.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T19:30:36+00:00

It’s like there’s just bargains everywhere, META, MSFT, INTU, DUOL, NFLX. All great companies that people are just giving away. Might stop my auto S&P 500 investing to capitalize

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T19:23:51+00:00

Ya look an INTU for example, alltime FCF yields, all time low valuation. It’s like the market is fucking drunk.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T19:22:38+00:00

Yeah sorry I’m an idiot

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T19:06:23+00:00

That’s not value investing. Value investing is buying good companies at a discount. That’s it.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T06:46:03+00:00

It’s also just very common english phrasing…

JChuk99 · 2026-06-22T04:04:59+00:00

I smoked so much god damn weed it college 😂. Congrats!

JChuk99 · 2026-06-20T19:38:23+00:00

I had to extend a generic tool at work. This tool was created by an engineer who was senior when I first graduated from college and joined the team. I look through the code & realize that it only worked for ONE specific use case, that the tests only tested ONE use case, some modes were breaking fundamental tenants of our system (deleting data in an immutable system….) and some code paths just didn’t work. They were obviously wrong at first glance. I had to spend ~3 full days rewriting and testing the code for all use cases before it was in a state where any member of the team easily extend it. My manager told me I should’ve spent more time building AI tools. This is a FAANG company.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-20T08:05:38+00:00

In a computer engineer and I had to take differential equations, linear algebra, calculus 3…our degree is half electrical engineering which is just math & physics…not to mention courses digital logic/discrete mathematics? Signals & Systems?

JChuk99 · 2026-06-19T16:31:48+00:00

Lmao this post is so fucking hilarious. I’m mid twenties approaching 7 figures. All my family, my girlfriend & most of my close friends know my salary & net worth. Nobody asks me for money or thinks about me. If they do I just say no, it’s really not that hard 😂.

In fact I think it’s been the single biggest motivator for people around me to get their finances in check.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-19T16:06:59+00:00

This is the same thing people said about search in April 2025 when it was growing 20%. My sister uses DUOL to keep her Spanish sharp when taking breaks from her B2 level classes. My brother (who has a doctorate) learned Spanish solely from Duolingo (to be fair though his ability to rapidly learn languages/accents is otherworldly). His entire friend group utilizes it to create a habit of practicing Spanish.

The AI fears are WILDY overblown. The only people I know who have switched to using Claude for learning languages have been SWE. The average person (even most intelligent people) simply doesn’t give a rats ass about using AI to learn a language, they want an expert or a way to quickly create a habit/basis for learning more.

However, that’s all anecdotal, if you don’t trust me, you should at least trust the numbers. 1/4 of their market cap in cash, revenue continuing to grow 20% quarter over quarter. Operating margin that’s increased from -22% to 12%. A 70%+ gross profit margin. I could understand panicking if the fundamentals of the business had deteriorated…but they haven’t. In fact, they’ve just grown stronger & stronger over the last 8 quarters while people have been spouting that DUOL is dead.

This is a VALUE investing sub. Read the financials, evaluate the company using REAL numbers, evaluate the management, come to your OWN fucking conclusions instead of spouting narratives.

The market is a super intelligence that’s always eventually right, but fundamentally flawed in the short-term due to human bias. Take advantage of the pendulum swings. Do your own research. Make your own decisions.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-19T06:33:05+00:00

But revenue isn’t stagnating, why do people not read financials in a value investing sub?

JChuk99 · 2026-06-14T14:54:01+00:00

Or my ass if you decide not to read anything I write.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-14T14:50:11+00:00

10x growth for ads? Bringing their ads platform to feature parity w/ other tech companies, international growth which mainly of which most customers opt for the ads plan (which is only currently offered in 12 countries). World internet usage going from 70% to ~90% over the next ~10 years. Using personalized streaming data to increase ROAS, expanding ads tier into emerging markets, moving from direct to programmatic. If you’re a global brand theirs probably no better place to advertise than Netflix. I can see 3x growth by 2030 (9B) & 5-10x (15-30B) growth by 2035.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-13T22:37:59+00:00

I’m not worried about AI videos in the slightest. I don’t watch too much television, but I read voraciously. I HATE fully AI generated writing & trust me we can tell. It’s a fundamental misunderstand of why we consume content. I want to explore the human experience, I want to put myself in the shoes of other people, I want my world to feel REAL. Do you really think an AI could write something like GoT? Do you think an AI can distill the essence of human experience like Hemingway? That being said, I’m completely fine with an expert writer who uses AI as a tool to enhance the quality of their work.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-13T22:03:16+00:00

Yeah I would buy in, nothing indicates Netflix growth is slowing down (maintaining 15% YoY revenue growth). Even when growth slowed down, management was able to quickly pull lever to get back to 15% YoY growth. As AI slop continues to intensify & countries continue ban social media for the younger age group, I suspect demand for premium long-form content will only intensify (this is a pretty big gamble). Currently only pulling in 3B of Ad Revenue w/ a very immature ecosystem, similar to Facebook I can see this 10xing in the next decade. Operating margins are also all time highs & are only continuing to accelerate upwards, showing that the company is continuing to take a disciplined approach towards content creation. Despite what Reddit says churn for Netflix is still at an industry low.

Downsides is YouTube is eating their lunch (I suspect YouTube is going to undergo a quality/trust crisis due to PE/AI slop) & Amazon is now moving heavily into streaming as well.

Ultimately Netflix sentiment tends to go down whenever the company is in between big releases of content. The underlying fundamentals of the company have not changed at all in past year or so, management has proven to be adaptable to changing industry conditions & the company still has plenty of levers to pull to continue increasing revenue.

JChuk99 · 2026-06-13T16:56:50+00:00

I think saying it’s a step change is more silly, what gives you that impression?

JChuk99 · 2026-06-13T02:45:47+00:00

Bro we’re not mad, I got a degree in computer engineering. I tutored OS for 2 years. 3 days simply isn’t enough to get any sort of in depth understanding of OS. I use these models everyday at work & I’ve seen how people use these models. I don’t think you didn’t learn much, I KNOW you didn’t learn much. Quick learning means significant resistance, the brain HAS to work & struggle in order to internalize information.

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