The benefits are so obvious that they preclude any supporting evidence or research. They are more or less axiomatic/dogma.
Wild take - maybe the pace of introducing new changes has not increased _because_ the "benefits" are not so obvious after all.
We had the internet for decades, with the sum of human knowledge largely available, no one used it.
Now those same uninspired masses are going to use to use the magic knowledge box to produce what they could never bring themselves to learn or research? No.
Just because the LLM can spit out code that looks good to you when you know what to ask for, does not mean that it is doing the same for everyone else.
Can you explain what you mean?
Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.
Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.
I'm primarily backend dev, but want able to prompt my way into building tiny JS web apps for personal use.
Wife always wanted to write animated story books for kids, and was actually able to create a bunch with Gemini (our daughter enjoys these more than the store-bought ones, since they're tailord/personalized for her).
The sales pitch is as good or better than if someone with full understanding did it themselves. Maybe that's true for the first one or two rounds, assuming it's something that isn't novel. Beyond that it's just not true.