Comment by rednafi

So far, the ROI has been much lower than expected. The hype certainly attracted a ton of investment, but aside from some code generation and summarization, I’ve yet to see any meaningful yield.

The narrative claims that AI will make everyone far more productive, but in reality, I see people working harder than ever and burning out while maintaining this slop in production.

AI search and summarization have been a flop, and most people I know hate them. LLMs are undoubtedly useful, but despite all the supposed productivity gains, I’m not seeing any measurable impact. I used to spend hours reviewing human-written PRs, and now I spend even more time because of lazy AI-generated garbage creeping into the codebase.

Some AI parrots will say, “Oh, I never push code I don’t understand,” but that doesn’t stop others from doing it, and now you have to be extra vigilant during PR reviews.

The gist is that everyone claims to be more productive, but the numbers say otherwise. Even so, LLMs are genuinely useful, just not nearly as much as the investment would suggest.