> wake up to more progress

I wonder how that progress is being measured. Lines of code or counts of PRs? Sure... but I thought the matter of measuring productivity by lines of code was already well-understood as being misguided.

I'm having trouble reconciling all that supposed productivity with the real world where software isn't getting better, delivered faster, or becoming cheaper - unlike virtually all breakthroughs in industrialization (printing press, weaving loom, etc) which led to a quick increase in at least one of such factors.

I'm not denying that AI helps with and excels at parts of the software development lifecycle, but from my experience those parts overall contribute to a small increase in output or merely shift the work elsewhere (where it may just not be part of whatever measurement is being used).