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If 25% of code was AI-written, wouldn't it be a 33[.333...]% increase in productivity?

• card_zero 2y ago
  Not if there was also an 8.333̅% increase in slacking off. Wait, no. That should be based on how much slacking off Google employees do ordinarily, an unknown quantity.
  • saagarjha 2y ago
    You can just check Memegen traffic to figure that one out.
• PeterStuer 2y ago
  It is not a direct correlation. I might write 80% of the lines of code in a week, then spend the next 6 months on the remaining 20%. If the AI was mostly helpfull in that first week, overall productivity gain would be very low.
• vundercind 2y ago
  Who spends 100% of their time actually typing code? It’s probably closer to 10% than 100%, especially at big companies. One thing I would love to see is reports of benefits from various tools coming with one’s typing ability in WPM. I’d also like to see that on posts where people express a preference for “a quick call” or stopping by your desk rather than posting what they want in chat. I have some hypotheses I’d like to test out.