[RevEng]

I'm always hesitant of these claims. Sure, it's possible that AI really did help them achieve the same level of quality at 100x the pace. It's also possible it generated a huge tech debt that only passes the tests but hasn't planned for future maintainability, readability, and extensibility, and a year from now their entire process will grind to a halt.

I have a few people on my team who move 5-10x faster than others in writing code. They also generate 5-10x as many bugs and require that much more rework in the things that were shipped. They move fast and break things. Their code is almost malicious compliance in that it passes the tests or spec as given, while leaving glaring holes in things that weren't fully specified. A more careful developer would have asked questions, considered alternatives, and looked for ways to leverage existing solutions or plan for future work, but that takes time now and its benefits don't show up until later.

So while I don't immediately disbelieve that 10x+ speedups are possible with heavily AI-augmented flows, I am skeptical of any short term success stories until we have time to see the long term effects. We already know that cutting corners can save time in the short term only to cost us several times more in the long term.