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Will the productivity expectations drop with the AI budgets I wonder?

Most enterprises say that while the tools are useful and here to stay in some more limited form, the productivity improvements have been broadly underwhelming. So it’s more the inverse, because the impacts observed have been limited companies are reining in spending. When CEOs were hoping AI was going to result in massive productivity improvements CEOs were handing out blank cheques.

We see the amount of time employees write code decrease. But that time has been taken up by double checking the code, having that code reviewed by 1 or 2 code reviewing platforms and vuln management systems, having claude rework the code based on those results, dev testing and deployment testing, product and feature design work, etc.

A lot of developers spend significantly little time coding. So yeah, their coding time has decreased, but they were never coding for 6 hours a day every day to begin with.

Models are getting better all the time and either keeping prices or lowering them.

What you could achieve with $10k a year ago vs today is quite different.

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