Research
The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net developer productivity (value created by unit of time) is only up by a bit, i…
The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net developer productivity (value created by unit of time) is only up by a bit, if at all. Part of it is that the additional code is solving
The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net developer productivity (value created by unit of time) is only up by a bit, if at all. Part of it is that the additional code is solving more incremental problems. A bigger part is that the new code is creating problems of its own.
Source: Francois Chollet (X) | 2026-05-14