Finding where AI is moving the needle has been hard, if not impossible.
Because code, by it self has never moved the needle. It's the product, what the code does that moves the needle.
Building the wrong thing, faster, is just a speed run to a legacy code base. That isnt your development teams fault.
Never a truer word said. It's the only thing that moves the needle.
I'm not sure that businesses are straying from AI. I reckon everyone's on board. but AI is now accessible to the business folks - callow as they are to the requirements of the technology components - and it's bound to run up against the technology folks trying to wave them off when enthusiastic excesses threaten what the code does, now or in the future. There'll be adjustments on both sides.
https://olakai.ai/blog/uber-ai-budget-blowout/
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-a...
Clamping down might be a better choice of words here.
I think what most of the HN set misses is that there is a ton of code being written that they just don't see. It's code that prior to AI never would have existed. That expensive programing resource (this is most of us) doesn't have time to go whip up those time saving scripts for the people in accounting and marketing who need them. And it's not like these people are gonna gab that they saved themselves 3 hours a week with some basic python. They are gonna take that time back and shut up about it.