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jurgenburgentoday at 12:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Before AI, it was impossible to measure productivity. Some tried with misguided metrics like lines of code added but that just incentivized writing obtuse code.

What has changed?


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htrptoday at 1:11 PM

vibes maybe?

If effective AI enhanced SWEs can ship features in a week, the guys who ship 1 feature a quarter stand out more?

dborehamtoday at 1:11 PM

Impossible to measure in absolute terms but I think it's clear productivity increases relatively when LLMs are used. At least that's my strong experience.