AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by doc_manhat_3 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:30AM (#44799310)

I think even claims of 2-5x are highly suspect. It would imply that if your team is using AI then all else equal they accomplish 2-5 times as much in a quarter. I don't know about you but I'm certainly not seeing this and most people on my team use AI.

[And to those saying we're using it wrong... well I can't argue with something that's not falsifiable]

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by coffeebeqn on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:14PM (#44799978)

My company is all in on LLMs and honestly the improvement seems to be like 0.9x to 1.2x depending on the project. None of them are moving at break neck speed and many projects are just as bogged down by complexity as ever. Pretty big (3000+) company with a large mature codebase in multiple languages. For god knows how much money spent on it

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by rightbyte on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:50PM (#44801582)

Do you mean -10 to +20% or 90 to 120%?

I am not allowed to use LLMs at work for work code so I can't tell what claims are real. Just my 80s game reimplementations of Snake and Asteroids.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by yen223 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:19PM (#44804466)

Once a company gets to a certain size, they no longer optimise for product development, instead they optimise for risk mitigation. A lot of processes will be put in place with the sole purpose of slowing down code development.

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Re:AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive by __loam on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:49AM (#44799588)

There's a bunch of open source projects where we can observe that not happening in real time.

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