> extremely productive camp somewhere in the middle
replyHow do you quantify and measure this productivity gain?
These kinds of comments are so spectacularly useless. It was almost impossible to measure productivity gains from _computers_ for nearly two decades after they started being deployed to offices in the 1980s.
replyThere were articles as late as the late 1990s that suggested that investing in IT was a waste of money and had not improved productivity.
You will not see obvious productivity gains until the current generation of senior engineers retires and you have a generation of developers who have only ever coded with AI, since they were in school.
It was not impossible to measure them. It is just that you dont like the result of the measurement - early adopters often overpaid and endes up with less efficient processes for more money.
replyEventually companies figured out how to use them effectively and eventually useful software was created. But, at the start of the whole thing, there was a lot of waste.
Quite a lot of people are now paying a lot for ai that makes them produce less and lower quality. Because it feels good and novel.
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