Re:100x Developers
by deathanatos on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:46PM
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> I bet they are measuring lines of code, MRs or deployments.
My previous employ was at one point being courted by an AI coding agent company to push their agent on us, internally; after a trial period, they sent us pretty graphs show us the "increase in productivity", which as TFA correctly guesses, was MRs.
I double checked the numbers, and … the books were cooked. This was pointed out and "oh it was some bug in the script we use that's all fixed now" but of course, … the graphs weren't regenerated or corrected. (And also, of course, the correction would not have been in their favor.) So of course the (now known to be bad) data continued to be an input into decision making. (Which TBF to AI, making decisions on suddenly conjured data before or even after it has been verified has been a thing long before AI.)
My previous employ was at one point being courted by an AI coding agent company to push their agent on us, internally; after a trial period, they sent us pretty graphs show us the "increase in productivity", which as TFA correctly guesses, was MRs.
I double checked the numbers, and … the books were cooked. This was pointed out and "oh it was some bug in the script we use that's all fixed now" but of course, … the graphs weren't regenerated or corrected. (And also, of course, the correction would not have been in their favor.) So of course the (now known to be bad) data continued to be an input into decision making. (Which TBF to AI, making decisions on suddenly conjured data before or even after it has been verified has been a thing long before AI.)