From what I see around me the first is by far and away the most common use case. * Everybody thinks theyre more productive. * Some devs do boost their product

From what I see around me the first is by far and away the most common use case. * Everybody thinks theyre more productive. * Some devs do boost their productivity a bit. * But nowhere near enough to counter the slop merchants. On average if I measure productivity by pull requests, productivity has gone up. If I measure by bugs and incidents and value delivered, I think mostly it's gone down, often significantly due to the side effects of AI abuse and slop. To be fair pull requests are a lot more measurable than the trust lost because of a series of critical bugs and incidents but if you work on the ground floor of a product you get a good sense of the relative trade offs. If I look at open source as a whole ive noticed a rhyming pattern - established products aren't moving any faster these days (despite a flood of PRs) but there is a sudden new deluge of vibe coded projects you can wade through, none of which are really gaining traction.