The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net...
François Chollet@fchollet
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May 15, 2026
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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.
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This reminds me of computerization. The amount of "work" people could execute on computers increased by a huge factor, but their productivity did not. The amount of work "needed" to arrive at the same high-level outputs exploded.