> Then AI arrived, and overnight, our engineering velocity jumped by roughly 3–8x.
X Doubt
This flies in the face of all available scientific evidence collected to date, which shows an average company-wide slowdown of 20-50%, depending on industry, codebase, and a number of other factors being likely.
Only about 2% of all devs show an increased velocity after 12+ months of using AI, and for almost all of them, their “improvements” stayed stubbornly in the single digits. Plus, for the remainder, regression analysis strongly indicated that over 90% of them would never be faster with AI than without.
Pretty much 98% of all companies using AI have seen no material RoI, and the vast majority of them have remained deep in the red.
Honestly, I call bullshit on any numbers like the ones stated above, and would strongly advise anyone else with healthy, non-indoctrinated scepticism to demand evidence such as analytics and observability reports.
X Doubt
This flies in the face of all available scientific evidence collected to date, which shows an average company-wide slowdown of 20-50%, depending on industry, codebase, and a number of other factors being likely.
Only about 2% of all devs show an increased velocity after 12+ months of using AI, and for almost all of them, their “improvements” stayed stubbornly in the single digits. Plus, for the remainder, regression analysis strongly indicated that over 90% of them would never be faster with AI than without.
Pretty much 98% of all companies using AI have seen no material RoI, and the vast majority of them have remained deep in the red.
Honestly, I call bullshit on any numbers like the ones stated above, and would strongly advise anyone else with healthy, non-indoctrinated scepticism to demand evidence such as analytics and observability reports.