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by hospitalJail 1093 days ago
Managers need to sign off on how many hours it saves. Its their neck at the end of the day.

It helps that we are often saving ~400 hours/yr spending ~80 hours or less.

We can also see it in overtime hours being eliminated, and the (real) engineers are making more complex designs but the size of the team hasn't changed.(30% more complex in 2.5 years, same team size) They also havent replaced engineers that left the team.

Basically: We save enough hours that it is obvious. There are added benefits like not having humans do manual checks, so less prone to errors. (Although I argue that our bugs are equally as dangerous)