Nothing in terms of feature release / quality / maintenance I am seeing out Big Software would lead me to believe there's been any productivity increase.
What is it though? Is it a harder problem than I think it is or is Conway's law getting the better of the G?
In fact lately it seems like nobody hires for this.
At least when we get monthly news about how powerful the new models of the openai and anthropic are.
Maybe in 5 years we're all sitting in water tanks producting energy for the ai machine's like in matrix.
My company has a shitty old defunct group management portal that has been twice superseded and is finally getting shut down. But we have LLMs, why not maintain it in perpetuity? Because it's shit, nobody likes it, there are other options, it would still cost someone's time just to follow all the processes we have to do releases and keep things running, security testing, yada yada.
Adding more years of support to some shitty old thing is certainly going to cost them more than it makes them.