alt Hacker NewsI mostly agree with you but I AM super productive with AI. I'm working on a side-project and have built in 2-3 months what my quite productive team of 3-4 people would take 4-6 months to build in 2016. And I'm not talking to generative slop but real production grade code that I have reviewed+approved or manually refactored before merging. Like you I'm not impressed by these toy projects but the productivity gain is very real. At least has been for me.
I don't disregard what you are saying and believe that being more productive with sufficient quality is _possible_.
But how do you measure it? All the metrics I see being chased (metrics that were never accepted as productivity measurements before) can be gamed with slop, and so slop is what we'll get.