[netcan]

On a tangential note... This type of problem is very relevant for "impact of ai" estimates.

I think we have a tendency to overestimate efficiency... because of the central roles it plays at the margins that mattered to us at any given time. .

But the economy is bottlenecked in complex ways. Market demand, money, etc.

It's not obvious that 100X more code is something we can use.

[JoshuaDavid]

We can almost certainly use 100x as much code as is currently written. There's a ton of throwaway code that, if written, would produce small but nonzero value. Certainly 100x as much code wouldn't produce 100x as much value though. I suspect value per unit of code is one of those power law things.