[thewarrior]

While I agree with the points he’s raising let me play devils advocate.

There’s a lot more code being written now that’s not counted in these statistics. A friend of mine vibe coded a writing tool for himself entirely using Gemini canvas.

I regularly vibe code little analyses or scripts in ChatGPT which would have required writing code earlier.

None of these are counted in these statistics.

And yes AI isn’t quite good enough to super charge app creation end to end. Claude has only been good for a few months. That’s hardly enough time for adoption !

This would be like analysing the impact of languages like Perl or Python on software 3 months after their release.

[philipwhiuk]

But that isn't the argument presented. The argument is that it's 10x to developer productivity, not just 'the odd script'.

And if it's not that, then the silly money valuations don't make any sense.