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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
by monknomo 6mo ago
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
- irke 6mo agoIncremental 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.
- monknomo 6mo agoattributing 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...