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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by monknomo on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:25PM (#47576332)
nobody know how to measure software productivity + ai is supposed to mean productivity goes up = more ai means more productivity

As best as I can tell, that's the thinking. It's one number, it's very easy to find and manage, and there is a belief that it directly measures productivity.

I disagree that it does; seems to me the throughput of useful features is a better measure, but I'm not in the drivers seat on this one

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by irke on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:59PM (#47576831)
Incremental revenue and cost-savings, at least for enterprises, is where it would show up. There’s also a present value consideration - if LLM’s make those dollars come into existence closer to the present, they are worth more.

The personal use case stuff is messy and subjective.

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by monknomo on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:26PM (#47577176)
attributing incremental revenue to gross engineering effort is challenging, imo.

Cost savings is primarily a function of headcount here. Which is also easy to measure, and so if we take my thesis that easy to measure stuff is prioritized...