Thanks for reading, vaidhy! Not sure those assumptions are in there to be honest. The chart is simply to compare replacing "devs" with "devs + AI" to obtain the same output vs. keeping the same number of devs and increase the overall output. We can debate the multiplier, but it's math that with the same multiplier, more devs will produce more output, all things being equal.

If what you are saying it's true, i.e. AI is borderline useless, it should not be used as a reason to justify layoffs, right?

Finally, I was lucky enough to get a lot of my work prioritized - that paragraph was just trying to be the usual funny interaction between PMs and devs. I guess it didn't work. The main point remains - products today are not that polished or complete, so clearly some code is not being written or fixed.