[ModernMech]

Right, a machine that automates the planting of mines may make the user more productive at their job, but that doesn't really account for the time spent cleaning them up on the backend and how many limbs will be lost in the process. AI is an automated landmine planting machine.

Sure AI increases developer output, which is sometimes correlated with productivity -- but often times not. Insofar as AI is accelerating positive outcomes (we were able to write some tricky code that was blocking us), it's also accelerating the negative outcomes (we used the LLM to write 40k lines of code in an hour and no one know what any of it does). One of these things is "productive" the other is just performative work.

If "being more productive" is using an ai to write an email which is then summarized by AI on the receiving end, or students using AI to write papers which are graded by AI, or developers using AI to write code which is then reviewed by AI, then AI isn't actually making anything better.