| ▲ | ciconia an hour ago | |
> make developers 2x, 5x, 10x as productive on stuff that matters What does this even mean? Is this about speed of development? Is this about headcount? LoC? How are coding agents contributing to productivity in places like GitHub, Shopify or Meta? I mean companies that already have an established product. I really wanna understand this because I'm not seeing that GitHub's product suddenly became so much better than it was 2 years ago, so where's all that productivity going? | ||
| ▲ | zamalek an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
The productivity is going into perverse incentives[1], e.g. we have improved (by which I mean "increased") token use. More PRs every day. More lines of code. All things we knew were shit-brained metrics a decade ago (obviously except token use). We've also increased how much our coworkers need to read, or deal with. You can get an AI to make any point you want, so you can ignore the 5 humans raising alarms due to the 1 clanker you made say what you want to hear. All numbers going up. There are obviously people producing additional true value with it, probably, but that's almost certainly scarce. | ||
| ▲ | flexagoon an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Productivity is measured in the number of AI-generated Twitter posts developers can make about their AI-generated startups | ||