However everything in this field is cargo culting. We have absolutely no way to quantify productivity in the real world.
We've had advanced programming languages backed by advanced programming language theory for decades and the most used/ran programming languages in the world are C, PHP and JavaScript, languages held together by duct tape or in the case of C, programing language theory from the 60s.
We have a super minimal JavaScript runtime in the browser to avoid a bloated standard library and then people invent things like leftpad. At the same time basically every major website in the world serves mega bytes of tracking and ad serving libraries.
We all "know" AI makes coders more productive but nobody can do the equivalent of a clinical trial for a major new drug.
However everything in this field is cargo culting. We have absolutely no way to quantify productivity in the real world.
We've had advanced programming languages backed by advanced programming language theory for decades and the most used/ran programming languages in the world are C, PHP and JavaScript, languages held together by duct tape or in the case of C, programing language theory from the 60s.
We have a super minimal JavaScript runtime in the browser to avoid a bloated standard library and then people invent things like leftpad. At the same time basically every major website in the world serves mega bytes of tracking and ad serving libraries.
We all "know" AI makes coders more productive but nobody can do the equivalent of a clinical trial for a major new drug.