These kinds of comments are so spectacularly useless. It was almost impossible to measure productivity gains from _computers_ for nearly two decades after they started being deployed to offices in the 1980s.
There were articles as late as the late 1990s that suggested that investing in IT was a waste of money and had not improved productivity.
You will not see obvious productivity gains until the current generation of senior engineers retires and you have a generation of developers who have only ever coded with AI, since they were in school.
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These kinds of comments are so spectacularly useless. It was almost impossible to measure productivity gains from _computers_ for nearly two decades after they started being deployed to offices in the 1980s.
There were articles as late as the late 1990s that suggested that investing in IT was a waste of money and had not improved productivity.
You will not see obvious productivity gains until the current generation of senior engineers retires and you have a generation of developers who have only ever coded with AI, since they were in school.