In what units?
I don’t mean 3x compounding monthly every month, I mean 3x total since I started using Claude Code about 6 months ago but the benefits keep compounding.
Firefox introducing their dev debugger many years ago "completely changed my life and the way I write code and run my business"
You get the idea. Yes, the day to day job of software engineering has changed. The world at large cares not one jot.
In the meantime, I've had to continuously hear talk about AI, both in real life (like at the local pub) AND virtually (tv/radio/news/whatever) and how it's going to change the world in unimaginable ways for the last...2/3 years. Billions upon billions of dollars are being spent. The only tangible thing we have to show is software development, and some other fairly niche jobs, have changed _a bit_.
So yeah, excuse my impatience for the bubble to burst, I can stop having to hear about this shit every day, and I can go about my job using the new tools we have been gifted, while still doing all the other jobs that sadly do not benefit in any similar way.
There is zero evidence that LLMs have changed software development efficiency.
We get an earth-shattering developer productivity gamechanger every five years. All of them make wild claims, none of them ever have any data to back those claims up.
LLMs are just another in a long, long list. This too will pass. (Give it five years for the next gamechanger.)
What I don't buy is the "in two years there will be no more concept of money or poverty because AI has solved everything" argument using the evidence that these tools are really good at coding.
Are you making 3x the money compounding monthly ?
No?
Then what's the point?
You're not fooling anyone