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AI writes code 100x faster – why hasn't productivity?
- wookmaster 6mo agoBecause it writes wrong code 100x faster too and humans trying to make sense of it all
- deeplstm 6mo agoit’s not always wrong. some of it is wrong. the trick is figuring out what’s actually correct
- blinkbat 6mo agoindeed, why _hasn't_ productivity? edge of my seat
- try-working 6mo agoBecause of the 1% problem: https://try.works/coding-agents-and-the-growing-1-problem https://try.works/coding-agents-and-the-growing-1-problem
- deeplstm 6mo agohumans are still very needed to verify AI outputs
- thepasch 6mo agoBecause the code was never the hard part?
- deeplstm 6mo agoit was kind of a hard part, but not the hardest
- rechargedaily 6mo agoOne angle that doesn't come up enough in this discussion: even when productivity gains don't materialise, engineers are still feeling the pressure as if they have. In our burnout survey data, AI pressure to do more has emerged as a top 4 burnout driver in 2026 — a finding that didn't exist two years ago. So the productivity paradox has a human cost attached to it. CEOs see no productivity gains, but engineers are burning out from the expectation that they should be more productive because of AI. The pressure exists regardless of whether the output does. We wrote this up here if anyone's interested: rechargedaily.co/blog/ai-productivity-burnout-paradox Also running an anonymous survey on this — 3 mins, results public: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu-1Sa6oPvhDtFtBuKEgeQ-xIUMTjGdtfRwVLJGibhJUAmOg/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu-1Sa6oPvhDtFtBuK...