AI isn’t making developers more productive – it’s making them busier

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Key takeaways:

• AI is making developers busier, not more productive. A 741% increase in code written translates to just a 20% increase in releases.
• The bottleneck is everything after the code.
• The developer’s job has changed: writing code is no longer the primary skill – evaluating it is.

AI-coding tools have become a vital part of any developers’ toolbox in just a few years. The release of Fable, Anthropic’s latest model, propels the power forward even further.

However, adoption of AI-coding tools hasn’t always been smooth, with software engineers struggling to figure out how to make them fit into their workflow, and their managers grappling with how the job is changing.

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