[threethirtytwo]

We need to have more metrics for this. Like I hear people making this claim on HN all the time as if they know absolutely for sure but I doubt it's this simple.

I can guarantee you this... the story is not absolute. Depending on who you are and what you need to work on dev time could be slower, same or faster for you. BUT what we don't know is the proportion. Is it faster for 60% of people? 70%, 80%?

This is something we don't know for sure yet. But i suspect your instinct is completely wrong and that 90% of people are overall faster... much faster. I do agree that it produces more bugs and more maintenance hurdles but it is that much faster.

The thing is LLMs can bug squash too. AND they are often much faster at it then humans. My agentic set up just reads the incoming slack messages on the issue, makes a ticket, fixes the code and creates a PR in one shot.

[amelius]

AI is great for getting to know new technology. For example writing OpenGL code if you have not been exposed to it before.

I'm sure it also helps translate an app written for iOS into an app written for Android.

So it definitely improves performance.