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I don't know how to argue with this without making the same kind of sweeping generalizations that you are. I don't know that you or I are qualified to set the g

I don't know how to argue with this without making the same kind of sweeping generalizations that you are. I don't know that you or I are qualified to set the goalposts or come up with any kind of objective measure for the progress of all recent software and all recent hardware that is convenient to analyze or debate in this text box. While there's a loud minority who love to debate the topic, LLM use has become status quo on most products and projects pretty much across the board, and most people are happy to acknowledge 1:1 that their personal productivity is some multiple of [all time before they started using LLMs]. At the same time, you can surely appreciate why many are quiet about their personal usage because there's no upside to discussing it but there's lots of people just hanging out waiting to tell you that you're imagining the whole productivity thing when you do. At some point, the path of least resistance is to let the loud minority be loud while you get an extraordinary amount of work done.

jayd16 5mo ago
So we've abandoned the idea that coolness is even perceivable. Even if the argument was about pure productivity, or any hard measurement, the numbers don't seem to add up. Can we point to any hard metric that has improved in the industry in the last 2-3 years? It explains why work hours are short, everything is cheaper and non-AI companies are experiencing cost reductions. Services are more reliable. Except, where is all that? You could argue that it's yet to come but to argue that it's already here... how do you justify that?