alt Hacker NewsExactly. Generative AI, so far, has clearly lead to increases in activity. I still have yet to see more than a handful of projects in which it has actually led to productivity and that's usually because the pilot still spent significant time on ensuring quality was high and that the outcomes actually align with what a business needs. In these cases, the boost is not 100x, it's a much more modest 2x-3x at most.
I think the root of the problem might be that, after two decades of the corporate version of scrum with its absurd obsession with story point velocity, we now have an entire generation of programmers and managers who have had the ability to distinguish between activity and productivity conditioned out of them.