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by zihotki 58 days ago
Productivity per dollar doesn't increase because for maturity levels 1&2 the costs for inference and extra team load (PRs quantity and size) eat up all gains. Only on level 3 one can see actual productivity impact. Most companies are between levels 1 and 2, that's where only costs are rising.

Levels: 0 - no AI, 1 - AI enabled (copilots), 2 - AI assisted (autonomous agent pipelines not on your PC) , 3 - AI measured.