[skydhash]

> LLMs give no productivity uplift at all, which is much harder to defend

It’s not really hard to defend. Because when people says that productivity is uplifted, they are talking about amount of work, not the ROI. That’s why you keep hearing about LOC, amount of PR and prototypes, and the time taken is actually “time to PR” and not “time to production + time spent on bugs”.

[tpdly]

There's another even more abstract liability on the balance sheet here for "deprecated LOC" or something, where the thing they built gets scrapped because no one wants to untangle the rat nest, or the "documentation" was so incoherent that it all had to be rewritten and reviewed.

[ctkhn]

Coming from legacy enterprise I am using claude to do exactly this for some of my team's more bizarre and poorly documented "inventions" that started out as their pet project and then became part of our official workflow.