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I genuinely think that AI has accelerated so many different things that announcements from all companies will be incredibly common and fast.

In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster.

In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making making multiple each week.

Not only that, we're making so many tiny improvements and bug fixes that improve the experience but we don't even bother to make those announcements anymore. They don't feel "grand" enough anymore. The goal post has shifted a lot in the last 6 months.

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I apologise if this sounds mean spirited, I find posts like these making grand claims without taking the time to present facts that back the magnitude of these claims simply add noise to the discussion.

You could've stopped with just the first sentence and I've would learned just as much as I did reading that comment to the end.

I've been tracking Github commits per week for my team. Here's how it's looking:

https://imgur.com/a/GvByYrD

Our own Github commits volume seem to follow quite closely with token usage on Open Router:

https://openrouter.ai/rankings

Do you also have a graph for more useful metrics, like number of requested features delivered? Commits, lines of code, headscratch count... there are a lot of metrics you can use, but LLMs are notorious for increasing code verbosity - which adds noise to the already imprecise metric you linked.

  Do you also have a graph for more useful metrics

Yes. I wrote about it in my original post.

  In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster.

  In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making making multiple each week.

But I suspect you want our project management pipeline? Maybe I can just ask our coding agent to search and summarize all the features and fixes for you and then build a dashboard for you. Better yet, my email is in my profile. Email me, we'll get on a call, and I'll show you. /s

Let me ask you. What are you doing such that your velocity hasn't been greatly accelerated in the last 6 months? Can you prove that it hasn't been accelerated with facts?

My bad - I misread your original post as general company announcements, rather than feature announcements. Now my question is, if your internal staff are not requesting these features and are struggling to adapt fast enough, how useful are they? To your last question - what do you mean by velocity? Velocity is speed and direction. You may have speed, but beware the brownian motion that is stochastic predictive models, as that will give you net zero velocity. I have my goals and know what I am doing, and to be frank, it matters more that I read and understand my own code than race to a local optimum.

  Now my question is, if your internal staff are not requesting these features and are struggling to adapt fast enough, how useful are they

Some are internal staff requested, some are customer requested, some are PM requested.

> I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle.

And your solution to staff being unable to handle the number of feature announcements be like..?

> more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle

have you considered the consequences of that or are you still drunk and thinking that this is a good thing?

They solved the code, now they're gonna solve the people away.

This is needlessly combative and insulting.

Which company?

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