I don't understand the "being more productive" part. Like, sure, LLMs make us iterate faster but our managers know we're using them! They don't naively think we suddenly became 10x engineers. Companies pay for these tools and every engineer has access to them. So if everyone is equally productive, the baseline just shifted up... same as always, no?

Mentioning LLM usage as a distinction is like bragging about using a modern compiler instead of writing assembly. Yeah it's faster, but so is everyone else code... Besides, I wouldn't brag about being more productive with LLMS because it's a double edge sword: it's very easy to use them, and nobody is reviewing all the lines of code you are pushing to prod (really, when was the last time you reviewed a PR generated by AI that changed 20+ files and added/removed thousands of lines of code?), so you don't know what's the long game of your changes; they seem to work now but who knows how it will turn out later?