[llmslave2]

I would never suggest that only I know better. Plenty of other people are observing the same thing, and there is also research backing it up.

Maybe shocked is the wrong term. Surprised, perhaps.

[marcellus23]

There are simply so many counterexamples out there of people who have developed projects in a small fraction of the time it would take manually. Whether or not AI is having a positive effect on productivity on average in the industry is a valid question, but it's a statistical one. It's ridiculous to argue that AI has a negative effect on productivity in every single individual case.

[llmslave2]

It's all talk and no evidence.

[sarchertech]

We’re seeing no external indicators of large productivity gains. Even assuming that productivity gains in large corporations are swallowed up by inefficiencies, you’d expect externally verifiable metrics to show a 2x or more increase in productivity among indie developers and small companies.

So far it’s just crickets.