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Codegen is not productivity


There is a whole lot to say about generative AI. LLMs generate a bunch of code, this much is certainly true. Should we celebrate that? There is a long tradition of trying to measure software development output, and most of it tells us that lines of code is a poor metric of programmer productivity. I have some thoughts.

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