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>> AI made us 10x more productive.

I'm wondering what you are doing to feel that much of a productivity boost? There have been three occasions since 2022 where I felt concretely 10X more productive. The rest of the time I'm not feeling a huge / direct impact. While it isn't necessarily drastically more productive in a linear sense (churning out more of the same stuff for instance) things have radically changed nonetheless.

It will be interesting if it leads to a bloat of unnecessary features that customers dont really want

Prediction. The rise of articles discussing AI attributed bloat and technical debt.

As they say.. Garbage in..

From that standpoint, it's definitely happening already. But removal is easier too now. The real question is whether teams will have the discipline to delete. Most won't, but those who do will build better products.

I am beginning to notice more "features" in apps that suspiciously raise questions: "Was that feature really needed and was the AI to sneak it in there!?"

Always the case