alt Hacker News> enabling programmers around the world to be far more productive
I know a lot of us feel this way, but why isn't there more evidence of it than our feelings? Where's the explosion of FOSS projects and businesses? And why do studies keep coming out showing decreased productivity? Why aren't there oodles of studies showing increases of productivity?
I like kicking back and letting claude do my job but I've yet to see evidence of this increased productivity. Objectively speaking, "I" seem to be "writing" the same amount of code as I was before, just with less cognitive effort.
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It's like everyone forgot that "lines of code" as a productivity metric was a running joke for a decade-plus. The real bottleneck in our work isn't producing boilerplate code, it's producing more or less the right kind of code for the problem at hand, and LLMs, having no real underlying ability to reason, are just not very good at it.
I haven’t done web development since 2002 except for some copy and paste work. My development is purely back end and AWS IAC. I have completely vibe coded three internal web admin sites that had about 10 pages of functionality and authentication with Amazon Cognito. I didn’t look at a line of code. I just told it what I wanted and the changes based on the UX I wanted