> If you can solve "measure programming productivity with data" you'll have cracked one of the hardest problems in our industry.

That doesn't mean that we have to accept claims that LLMs drastically increase productivity without good evidence (or in the presence of evidence to the contrary). If anything, it means the opposite.

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simonw 5 hours ago | parent [-]

At the is point the best evidence we have is a large volume of extremely experienced programmers - like antirez - saying "this stuff is amazing for coding productivity".

My own personal experience supports that too.

If you're determined to say "I refuse to accept appeal to authority here, I demand a solution to the measuring productivity problem first" then you're probably in for a long wait.

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llmslave3 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There is also plenty of extremely experienced programmers saying "this stuff is useless for programming".

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simonw 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If a bunch of people say "it's impossible to go to the moon, nobody has done it" and Buzz Aldrin says "I have been to the moon, here are the photos/video/NASA archives to prove it", who do you believe?

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