Asking for proof of improvement is a very rational reaction to the last three to five years of constant AI hype cycling.

It's a simple question that seems to make AI cheerleaders really mad.

"How are you measuring improvement."

I use AI for coding every day and see it fail all the time, I'm a seasoned developer and early tech adopter just like everyone else on HN. I'm still very skeptical because of how often these systems just miss. It's gambler's ruin on a very large scale, we remember the hits and forget the misses.