Why not both? I've met my share of idiots measuring productivity wrong, and there needs to be a chain of idiots all the way up to let this escalate to a lawsuit (chains of idiots I've also seen). But I've also seen cruelty on occasion, and you need to have no empathy with your workers to have made this call in the first place.

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badgersnake 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What was that recent Microsoft quote, something about "we believe with Copilot one developer can produce 1m lines of code per month"?

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I could produce way more than 1m lines of code in far less than a month, and wouldn't even need Copilot.

I'm actually a bit terrified of the amount of code being cranked out. We worked on some code generators yesterday (not vibe-coded with AI, but yes, AI assistance was used heavily throughout) that generated thousands and thousands of lines of code. So we looked really really productive yesterday...

	▲	jermaustin1 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My sub-contracting/consulting career started 20 years ago writing code generators for SharePoint. Using the WSDL to generate DTOs and Service/Repository classes for them to power brochureware websites for a large luxury rentals firm. When we got a new customer that wanted a similar setup but they used WordPress, I then modified that generator to work off Custom Post Types. It could output to C# and to PHP. The customer never used the tools, my bosses never used the tools, they were for me to work more efficiently.